Seven works of her central exhibition 8th Biennale of Contemporary Art of Thessalonikiwith Title “Being as Communion”will host the Museum of Byzantine Culture, in atriums, in the central corridor and in three rooms of its permanent exhibition.

The exhibition “Being as Communion” is a reflection on the theme of coexistence with the people next to us, but also with the animals, the forests, the gardens of the earth, the shadows of the past, the dead and the generations to come.

According to the historian and curator of contemporary art Maria – Thalia Karras, who is in charge of the exhibition, the specific works “touch” the multiple layers of the city’s history and are hosted in ten different locations museums, monuments and spaces, connecting buildings from critical periods of the history of Thessaloniki: Byzantine, Ottoman, modern, proposing at the same time a polyphonic reading but also a pairing of many equal voices. Without a central exhibition space, the central exhibition can be characterized as multipolar, as each space functions autonomously allowing the visitor to imagine various connections.

The Museum of Byzantine Culture it is one of the starting points for some of the works, such as those of Cevdet Erek and Kostas Roussakis, which are exhibited in the museum. Other works are in dialogue with the museum’s collection: Jumana Manna’s Sketch and Bread parallels the structural fragments of modern cities with archaeological ruins. Ahmed Morsi’s surrealist panoptic vision is surrounded by Byzantine images, while Angelos Plessas imagines a new model of existence, which connects mystical, Byzantine and futuristic elements with the digital.