“Sphinxes” is a sculptural chair inspired by the story ‘Arrhythmia’ I wrote as a side story about the semi fictional character M. that I created last year. The chair refers to a dream that M. has during her intoxication and refers to the two riddles of the Sphinx: The first, famously answered by Oedipus, points to the human, the one who sits at the centre of the piece. The second, less well known, speaks of two sisters who give birth to each other: Day and Night. 

The viewer stands between these two opposites, reflected under the gaze of sphinxes’ eyes. The viewer becomes the answer, framed by the mirrored sphinxes, hybrid forms of animals, plants, and symbols from myth.

Materials: Solid wood, plywood, stainless steel

Part of the exhibition: "The Monsters I Live With," curated by Vasiliki-Maria Plavou. 

When do myth and design meet? What is its role and how does it inform the objects we live with? What monsters do we carry in our daily lives and how do they become forms of narrative, memory, and creation?

The exhibition invites six designers to a common place of experimentation: from myth to form, from tradition to contemporary interpretation. Here, design does not merely serve functionality, it becomes a tool for cultural reflection and a method for reappropriating a universal narrative.

Using contemporary digital tools as well as manual skills, the artists Astronauts (Danae Dasyra & Joe Bradford)  Panos Profitis  in collaboration with Ludd , Dimitris Tampakis,  Niki Danae Chania, and Despoina Charitonidi create a narrative for today, reactivating material, traditional techniques, and symbolism.

Design is presented as a language of communication with a strong emotional tone, becoming an act of resistance and reconnection with memory, the body, and the collective imagination. It invites you.