Everything begins with a personal legacy: summer.
Summer is not merely a season; it is a state of mind.
A feeling of freedom and light that continually returns.
The blue that dominates this series functions simultaneously as color, emotion, and idea
Through collage and mixed media, figures and objects act as fragments that come together to evoke not only an image, but a sensation: the feeling of summer as a continuous present.
We return to those childhood summers, when the world seemed simple, open, and unpretentious.
To a world that no longer exists — not climatically, not ethically, nor as lived reality.
A world where our ancestors were still present.
A world that quietly disappeared, as most of them left, taking with them a fragment of time — but not of memory.
The swimmers of Always the Blue do not swim in the sea.
They swim in the waters of memory.
They move as that former world once moved:
without high-protection sunscreen,
without instructions,
without the fear of exposure.
The swimmers move freely, almost carelessly, within a blue that is not merely a color but a state of being.
A blue that returns again and again — like a promise, like an obsession, like a refuge.
The works draw from personal memories, family traces, and the collective recollections of a Greek summer that has now become a narrative.
The sea is not presented as a landscape, but as an inner place. The figures hover between then and now, in a constant movement of return.
Always the Blue speaks about the need to keep alive something that once shaped us.
Because perhaps, in the end,
that world continues to exist
only as long as we remember it.
Curator’s Note
Always the Blue is an immersion into the memory of summer — an inner space that breathes light and sea.
The exhibition transforms Nezer Gallery into a spatial journey: from the deck of the pier to the water, and finally to the sand.
The architectural curation of space focuses on the relationship between color, materiality, and atmosphere, creating an environment in which the viewer is invited to move actively, both physically and mentally.
An architectural installation that speaks of memory, clarity, and a blue that never ends.
ALWAYS THE BLUE, by Anna Dimitriou
Curated by SOL (aka SLICE OF LIFE, an Elephant Design project)
Nezer Collective Gallery, @nezer_collective
8 Nezer Street, Athens 11743
May 8, 2026
more info: www.sliceoflife.gr @sol_byelephantdesign
