Technohoros art gallery presents the new solo painting exhibition by Foti Kllogjeri titled “I Am Not What You See“. The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Albania, and its opening will take place on Thursday, November 6, from 17:30 to 22:30, while the public may visit the exhibition until November 29.
The exhibition’s curatorial text is signed by Art Curator Paris Kapralos.
Exhibition duration: November 6 to 29, 2025
Foti Kllogjeri returns to Technohoros with a new series of works through which he seeks the authentic image of ourselves, within the context of the modern urban world that teeters between reality and the illusion of technology. The artist invites us to discover what lies hidden in his artworks, not what is presented at first glance. He asks us to discover and highlight our authentic selves, rather than the “cheap” imitation imposed by the fashion industry and the ever-growing technology that pushes humanity toward uniformity, stripping away all individuality. Observing the artist’s works might offer the viewer the opportunity to journey into their deeper inner world, briefly leaving behind the surface and shedding the persona society deems acceptable.
Art Curator Paris Kapralos notes in the exhibition’s curatorial text: “The works in Foti Kllogjeri’s latest exhibition challenge the image, provoke the gaze, and speak directly to the viewer in a language that is both familiar and enigmatic. In a world of overexposure and continuous representation, his artworks function like cracks on the surface: they highlight the gap between what appears and what truly is. His painting does not ask you to believe what you see, but to suspect what recedes, escapes, or remains silent behind the image.
This body of work by Kllogjeri forms a visual contemplation on the relationship between the individual and their modern urban environment, the commodification of daily life, and the slow, nearly imperceptible alienation caused by this relationship. The artworks presented in the exhibition are based on the guiding idea that the virtual world we built to showcase our values and qualities has developed to such an extent that it gradually erases the human presence from reality, replacing it. What we see around us are more representations of a virtual reality of the Self than the actual people walking beside us.
Within this framework, his painting develops with a strong personal touch, blending elements of abstract expressionism with traces of neorealism and characteristics of social commentary. Although the works show visual heterogeneity in terms of color palette and composition, they visually converge through gesture and thematically center around a core idea: the human presence gradually dissolving, becoming absence in a world relentlessly bombarding us with images, words, and the commodification of everyday life.
Through inscriptions like “SALE”, “BLACK FRIDAY”, and numerical indicators, words function not only as information but as visual statements—cries on the canvas. Their use is not merely descriptive. In most cases, they become protagonists of the composition, overshadowing the human form. Where the figure retreats, fades, merges with the background or appears ghostlike, the word remains firm, dominant. The ‘discount’ that Kllogjeri’s painting refers to is not only economic. It is existential. The person standing in front of the shop window is, in a sense, discounted.
The presence of the figure is constant, but mutable: at times clearly recognizable, at others almost immaterial, disintegrated within the color or composition. Sidewalks, crossings, shop windows, neon signs—all elements of the contemporary urban landscape coexist with the human, but not equally. The figure seems to dissolve into the environment, become trapped, disappear beneath the erosion of signs and the violence of repetition.
Color plays a decisive role in the composition. From cool greens and grays to warm explosions of red and yellow, the palette reflects emotional states and psychological landscapes. The materiality of oil on canvas acts not just as an image carrier but as a site of gesture: thick, rich, sometimes linear, sometimes chaotic, revealing both the desire for representation and its simultaneous impossibility.
Kllogjeri’s painting does not offer easy answers. On the contrary, it poses open-ended questions: what is the position of the modern person within the dazzling, overflowing urban environment? What is the value of their gaze, when it is constantly flooded by consumption prompts? Is there room for meaningful experience when everything around has turned into spectacle?
Without a denunciatory stance or rhetorical rejection, the artist chooses painting as a way of conversing with his time. His stance on the subject is neither absolute nor unambiguous. There is concern, there is doubt, there is a sense that something has gone off course, but along with that, there is the power of observation, of recording, and ultimately, of art as an act of consciousness. Humanity calls upon the human not to look only at the virtual reality: I Am Not What You See.“
Short Biography
Foti Kllogjeri is a painter, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, currently living and working in Thessaloniki. He is an internationally recognized watercolorist, and also particularly well known and appreciated in Greece for his oil paintings. He has presented his work in 9 solo exhibitions in Greece and has participated in more than 70 exhibitions worldwide. Foti Kllogjeri represents Greece as the Country Leader for the IWS (International Watercolor Society), is also the Country Leader of the Albanian Visual Arts Delegation at the annual Fabriano Symposium since 2017, served as Vice President of SKETBE (Association of Visual Artists of Northern Greece) from 2019 to 2022, is a member of the EETE (Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece), and collaborates with the ARC – Art Revisited Collective. His works belong to private and public collections.
Exhibition Opening: Thursday, November 6, 17:30–22:30 Exhibition Duration: November 6 to 29, 2025
Visiting Days and Hours
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 12:00–20:00
Wednesday, Saturday 10:00–18:00
Sunday, Monday closed
Technohoros Art Gallery
12 Lempesi Street, Athens | Acropoli metro station
Phone: +30 211 182 38 18
