The Association of Visual Artists of Crete presents the group art exhibition “ΑΝΤΗΧΗΣΕΙΣ” (Echoes), hosted at GARGARO GALLERY in Rethymno, from February 14 to March 15, 2026.

🎨 Opening night: Saturday, February 14, 2026, at 19:00
📍 GARGARO GALLERY, 41 Emmanuel Vernardou Street, Old Town, Rethymno
🕰 Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00–15:00 & 18:00–22:00

Exhibition Curator: Popi Sfakianaki

Participating Artists:
Baloo Evi (Panagiotopoulou Evi), Janowska Sylwia, Athanasakis Michalis, Vogiatzaki Eleni, Volakaki Evangelia, Gratsias Vasilis, Kamenu Vicky, Kannavou Eleni, Kannavou Thaleia, Katzagiannaki Despina, Koukoulaki Stella, Kounalis Kostas, Margaritis Haris, Matalliotaki Rena, Melissourgaki-Voźniak Mandalena, Bakalouma Jenny, Benetaki Maria, Pagomenos Kostas, Patmanidi Rena, Pavlakis Antonis, Pahiadakis Nektarios, Perakis Konstantinos, Politopoulou Eleni, Skepetzi Chrysoula, Spandidaki Eleni, Stathogiannis Ioannis, Stavrianoudakis-Kampas Andreas, Stylianoudakis Andreas, Tsamandouras Zacharias, Faliaridou Evgenia, Charkoutsi Maria.

Sound, by nature ephemeral, vanishes the moment it is born—yet it returns through time, space, body, and mind, leaving its imprint behind. Echo is not just an acoustic event, but a fundamental condition of meaning, relationship, and experience.

Sounds of nature, explosions and rhythms that awaken the senses and perception;
sounds of the modern city — human, metallic, digital, dystopian;
collective echoes of memory, shaped by a heavy history that haunts and frees;
individual memory sounds — carefree childhood laughter or cries of fear, rage, and pain, expressed or silenced and amplified;
subconscious sounds, voices of confusion, dead-ends, and programmed futures that keep shifting, dismantling every illusion of normality.

The exhibition “Echoes” doesn’t offer a single narrative — it invites an immersive experience. A process where the viewer becomes an active listener, charting a personal path through a constellation of independent artistic voices, each with its own conceptual and aesthetic rhythm.

The artworks “resonate” — or remain silent — with one another, forming a dynamic network of vibrations, relations, and meanings, reshaped continuously by the viewer’s gaze and personal echoes. Art here visualizes echoes of nostalgia, music, dreams or nightmares — emerging from a world that is at once familiar and foreign, where imagination is deeply and directly entwined with lived experience.

📍 GARGARO GALLERY, 41 Emmanuel Vernardou Street, Old Town, Rethymno

🕒 Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11:00–15:00 & 18:00–22:00

🗓️ Exhibition dates: 14/2 – 15/3/2026

🎉 Opening: 14/2/2026 at 19:00

📌 Organised by: Association of Visual Artists of Crete