On June 21, 2025, at 18:00, the opening of Panagiotis Kefalas’ new exhibition titled “Ήσσονος Σημασίας” (Minor Importance) will take place.

With this exhibition, Panagiotis Kefalas creates a space for rethinking what we consider important, inviting us to slow down, observe, and turn our gaze toward everything that escapes linear narratives.

Curator: Persefoni Nikolakopoulou
Exhibition Text: Evi Roumani
Location: Courthouse of Agios Nikolaos
Exhibition Dates: 21/06/2025 – 05/07/2025
Opening Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 18:00 – 22:00

We watched our experiences unfold fragmentedly. Nothing seemed to happen, yet there was tension and unresolved problems. We couldn’t find a clear path to follow. All those insignificant gestures, the absurdities of daily life we carry… entangled bodies, landscapes lost in memory, actions waiting to be undone — all of minor importance.

What does it know of our ways? What does it expect us to do?
He closed his eyes and lay down on the pavement, just another event of minor importance, swallowed by the pace of everyday life.

With the exhibition “Ήσσονος Σημασίας”, Panagiotis Kefalas turns to what we usually overlook — dust, decay, traces, or seemingly minor gestures — and brings them into the centre of his visual inquiry. Bodies and scenes are frozen in inertia, as if caught in a moment resisting completion.

Kefalas’ works act as fragmented depictions of the absurd in our daily actions, alluding to social entanglements and the exhausting routines of institutional mechanisms.

By embracing the passive ambiguity of the figures depicted, the exhibition forms a space of layered interpretations, where viewers connect through personal associations to seemingly unimportant scenes.

The show also suggests that what remains unnoticed or marginal may carry a different weight, unfolding slowly and inwardly.

With their eyes closed, they both remembered wanting once to play, run, stand together, sit side by side, hide, lie down…
Maybe now, in their own state of minor importance, they can see every subtle presence that gave meaning to their lives.

Artist Bio
Panagiotis Kefalas is a painter and founding member of the Ammophila curatorial team. He holds a degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts, a Master’s in Art History from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a Master’s in Special Education from the University of Nicosia.

His solo exhibitions include:

• “Μια συνηθισμένη ημέρα: μας σκέφτηκα να ξαπλώνουμε στο χώμα”, curated by Theofilos Trampoulis, EIGHT/ΤΟ ΟΧΤΩ (2023)

• “…and they told us we would find the way”, curated by Anna Chatzinasiou, Salon de Bricolage (2016)

• “Εντροπία και άρνηση”, Gallery Genesis (2014)

Group exhibitions:

• “Guts in Knots”, curated by Ammophila, Ueberlinger.Kulturschutzgebiet (2024)

• “ΘΕΣΜΙΖΕΙΝ ή Πώς δημιουργείται ένα αρχιπέλαγος;”, curated by Gkigi Argyropoulou, Vasilis Noulas, and Kostas Tzimoulis, EIGHT/ΤΟ ΟΧΤΩ (2023)

• “IDÉES FIXES: THINGS”, Crux Gallerie (2024)

• “+oikismos, Τόπος Υπερκόσμιων Συρράξεων”, curated by Panagiotis Daramaras, Ira Papadopoulou, Dimitris Chalatsis, Thodoris Korelis (2024)

• “Encore: νέα ελληνική ζωγραφική”, curated by Eleni Koukou, Christoforos Marinos, Theofilos Trampoulis, Municipal Gallery of Athens (2023)

• “Bestiary”, Crux Gallerie (2023)

• “Ammophila vol.3: There Was Land Here Before” (2022)

• “The Soft Underbelly”, curated by Poka-Yio, Zoumboulakis Gallery (2022)

• “Ζωγραφική 21”, curated by Eleni Koukou, Theofilos Trampoulis, Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos (2021)

• “Transmission Grecque”, curated by Maria Xypolopoulou, aΒponia center (2020)

He currently works as a high school teacher in Special Education.

Artist’s Note
"My painting focuses on how people connect or become alienated in historical, social, or political settings. The core material consists of a large archive of images, where heterogeneous elements from mass media, personal photos, and shared historical records — from the 1990s to today — are placed in dialogue.

This includes studies on modern individuals, melancholy, loneliness, and the struggles of everyday life where, as Julia Kristeva noted, subjects are excluded and isolated. My work also seeks to represent people in workspaces and beyond, and to depict the physical and material dimensions of power which, as Michel Foucault observed, operates in a game of spaces, lines, and screens — a power that is seemingly less physical but subtly material."