EUDAEMONIA is an Ancient Greek term which denotes a state of well being, a balanced physical and mental space where human needs and expectations are fulfilled, allowing inner joy and wellness to flourish. The word itself means “Good” and “Spirit” and it indicates the cultivation of certain good qualities or virtues needed for Spirit to prosper into a more meaningful and blissful life.

For Aristotle and many other great enlightened philosophers from various ancient cultures such as Lao Tse or Rumi, Eudaemonia is a very difficult state to achieve due to the fact that our mind is deeply rooted on a sense driven experience of reality.

Vicissitudes are the hardships we encounter on our daily quest for meaning, a reflection on how contemporary materialistic society fails to provide us with higher states of consciousness and meaningful existence.

Eudaemonia in its own right includes the concept of integration, of coming to terms. Today's globalized world also has a need for integrating different world values and views. The show contemplates these connections not in an illustrative manner but rather through a dialectic process between East and West at the level of collective unconscious and ancient archetypes, aiming to generate original narratives.

The objective is to create revelatory images out of the very act of painting, images that are able to confront the viewer with an existential dimension of the time we live in, a time of profound personal and social transformation. A period during which lockdowns, economic hardship and human loss have pushed us into deepening our use of the internet in order to communicate and look for answers. This has shifted our paradigms and led us to see the world differently.