Pause, Fragment, Fold

Curated by Dr. Giorgos Kontis
Coordinated with Jennifer Nelson

Opening: Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | 18:00 – 21:00

Exhibition duration: 10 December, 2025 – 31 January, 2026

Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday: 15.00-19.00 Saturdays: 12.00-16.00

Closed between 22 December and 6 January

Where:
ACG Plaka Building, 17B Ipitou St, Plaka, Athens

Organized by:
The Visual Arts program at the Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences,
Deree – The American College of Greece

About the exhibition

Pause, Fragment, Fold presents the outcome of a collaborative process between students from the Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at The American College of Greece, the Department of Fine Arts and Arts Sciences at the University of Ioannina, and the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton. Through a series of workshops, the students examined authorship, collective work, and dialogic artistic practice while also engaging with the ACG Art Collection. The exhibition foregrounds the fragment as a conceptual locus for rethinking form, narrative, and the conditions under which meaning emerges.

Engaging with the Kantian notion of schematism—the process through which a schema (form, shape) enables a concept to become sensible—the exhibition probes the conventional understanding that the schema follows the concept, serving not as its representation but as its vehicle. Pause, Fragment, Fold proposes an inversion of this trajectory: What if form were to precede concept? What if a schema were to arise first, not as a product of thought but as an open entity awaiting association, narrative, or conceptual articulation? Within this reframed logic, the fragment functions as a remnant or trace—seemingly empty, yet resonant with latent meaning. It is a shard of suspended stories, a part that gestures toward a possible whole without ever fully resolving into it. The fragment remains paused: incomplete but not inert, provisional yet charged with the potential to host new narratives and new conceptual formulations.

The exhibition further draws on Deleuze’s notion of the fold, positioning the fragment not as a discrete or isolated piece but as a point of continuous inflection. Here, the fold marks a moment within an ongoing development of form, where part and whole are not fixed oppositions but states that twist into and out of one another. A fold embodies both pause and movement—a holding pattern on the threshold of transformation.

Through works that test these conceptual thresholds, Pause, Fragment, Fold invites critical reflection on how meaning is produced, deferred, or reconstituted within artistic practice. By foregrounding the fragment as both vessel and rupture, the exhibition opens a space in which to reconsider the temporal and material conditions that shape creative processes today.

This exhibition is free and open to the public.

For further clarifications, please contact [email protected]

Participating artists:
Maria Adamidou, Konstantina Chatzouli, Evi Chondri, Elen Demirian, Nefeli Dimou, Maria-Louisa Dollete, Anna Giakoumakatou, Margarita Giannakopoulou, Xenia Giannoulatou, Theodoros Gkolas, Foivi Kainourgiou, Aristi Kouri, Anna Livieratou, Martha Marinou, Katerina Milesi, , Kostas Papapetros, Ioannis Sarris, Konstantina Sidera, Georgios Theodorakakos, Aggeliki Tsantila, Christina Tsaprailis, Veronica Vergou, Natalia Zara, L2 & L3 Winchester School of Art Fine Art Students (Painting, Sculpture & Printmaking), and selected works from the ACG Art Collection.

Exhibition Production:
Ana S. González Rueda, Katerina Milesi

Graphic Design:
Katerina Milesi

Visual Arts assistant:
Ioannis Sarris