The Fear of the Flat Reality
Art curator Paris Kapralos, in collaboration with visual artists from Greece and abroad, invites you to visit the exhibition “The Fear of Flat Reality” and to honour its opening with your presence on Thursday 11 December 2025, from 19:00 to 22:00.
The exhibition takes place in physical form in Athens at the Chili Art Gallery art space, Dimofontos 13-15, Thiseio, Athens, and simultaneously online, in collaboration with ARTgrID.
The exhibition explores the existential impact of digital flattening, focusing on the distortion of experience, depth, duration, and inner emotional resonance, through the distancing from the physical experience of things and relationships.
The visitor will encounter works of painting, photography, collage, and constructions, which make the visit to the exhibition a distinctive experience.
In the post-digital world, in the era of hyperconnectivity, where everyday experience is mediated by countless devices and is almost exclusively perceived as a form of digital content, nothing is more important than anything else—nothing lasts. The excessive production and circulation of images, information and opinion contribute to a new kind of cultural flattening. Everything tends to appear equally significant, cancelling out the possibility of hierarchy, depth or critical evaluation.
The theory of sensory overload, as articulated by Neil Postman, intersects with Nicholas Carr’s psychological analysis of “shallow attention”, outlining a condition in which the mind is unable to retain, process or interpret the stimuli it receives. The flattening of the world is not merely aesthetic or semiotic, but profoundly existential: experience is fragmented, duration is abolished, and human bonds are replaced by the worship of the latest moment.
The exhibition “The Fear of a Flattened Reality” explores the impact of the digital world on how individuals perceive time, vision, the self, others, human relationships and reality itself.
The following visual artists have contributed to the exhibition with their works: Pavlina Bargili, Dimitris Dimos, Ioannis Stamoulis, Athina Kyriakou, Ioannis Katsikadis, Konstantina Tsakiri, Eliza Lessi, Sofia Giannouli, Gerasimos Karantinos, Veta Mouzakiti, Apostolos Bakogiannis, Maria Nikoloudi, Kathryn Tsirigouli, Afroditi Veli, Anastasia Ferfeli, Anastasia Konstantakou, Aspasia Oikonomopoulou, Evangelia Aivali, Anastasios Tsolaridis, Sofia Atsali
ARTWORKS
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
On the official Facebook page of ARTgrID, starting from the opening night and until the end of the exhibition, an album with photographs of all the exhibited artworks will be posted, where the public will be able to express their preference by clicking “Like” until the final day of the exhibition at 23:59. For the artist who gathers the most “Likes” by that date and time, the organisers will publicly announce to the media the work that received the audience’s preference and will award the artist with non-monetary gifts.
VIEW THE ARTWORKS / VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITES HERE.
A bilingual (Greek and English) commemorative catalogue-book has been published for the exhibition, available free of charge to all visitors.
Exhibition Duration & Days/Hours: The exhibition will run from Thursday 11 to Saturday 20 December 2025. Visiting hours are: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00–18:00, Thursday 12:00–19:00, Saturday 11:00–15:00. Closed on Monday and Sunday.
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About the Curator
Paris Kapralos is an Art Curator, Founder & Coordinator of the ARC – Art Revisited Collective, and co-publisher of Arts & Antiques CCR. He was born in 1975 and raised in Athens, where he continues to live and work. He studied Economics (Athens) and Graphic Arts (Staffordshire, England). He worked as a Journalist specialising in Technology for financial newspapers, magazines, and online news agencies (1999–2006), and as an event executive in business conferences in the IT & Telecommunications sector (2004–2011), before changing career direction and entering the Art sector in 2011. Since then, he has curated and organised over 200 exhibitions, art actions, projects, and participations in and outside of Greece. More information is available on his official website.
About Chili Art Gallery
Chili Art Gallery was established in 2010 and is located in Thissio, right next to the City of Athens Cultural Centre “Melina”, a stone’s throw from the city’s liveliest area, Gazi. It is a cultural venue where art lovers and the general public can engage with all forms of Contemporary Art. Painting, sculpture, collage/compositions, installations/constructions, printmaking, and photography are showcased on a monthly basis through solo and group exhibitions and events. More information is available on the gallery’s official website.
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