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Eleni Maragaki: Landscapes Seen from Everywhere

Eleni Maragaki: Landscapes Seen from Everywhere at The Muse Gallery

‘Landscapes Seen from Everywhere’ explores the dichotomy between urban construction and the natural environment. Through the deconstruction of the landscape into abstract geometric forms, the works draw from the conflicts between the city and its surrounding natural world. The exhibition reflects on how artificial structures impose geometry, order, and repetition upon the organic flow of the landscape, while also acknowledging how the natural continues to exist within, around, and despite these conditions. At its core lies a meditation on the layered and fragmented structure of the contemporary landscape, informed by a growing disconnection between natural systems and human-made environments.

Some works invite interaction, allowing the exhibition to become a living system that responds to presence. With pieces such as The Twin Landscape Puzzle and Secret Landscapes, the process was to create situations where the dynamics between the human element, geometry, and nature could be tested. The notion of ‘play’ shaped these works, creating a collective environment around a table, where interaction is key.

The linocut prints reflect a method of flattening, segmenting, and coding space, echoing early cartographic practices. Their black-and-white language recalls how maps once defined, outlined, and classified terrain. The use of monchrome and line representation emphasises the essential elements of natural forms. These representations are based on imagined topographies that emerge from both observed and invented forms, bridging systematic and scientific documentation with subjective interpretation.

Ultimately, the exhibition reflects an ongoing exploration of our relationship to the landscape, how it is experienced, represented, and reimagined. It brings together handmade landscape prints with mechanical repetition, randomness with order, and spatial openness with architectural containment. Rather than proposing a solution or a narrative, the exhibition situates the audience within fragments that never fully settle. 


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