The wallpiece was part of  the group exhibition collapse: data.models.worlds. at Saigon, Athens curated by Daphne Dragona and Katerina Gkoutziouli in February 2026.

I learned to live without water before I learned how to walk on land.
What survives of me leaks, hardens, shines.

The work is inspired by a semi-fictional story, under the same name, following a water nymph forced to abandon her underwater home and live in the Athens of the financial crisis, after her world is destroyed by industrial violence. Rather than narrating the story, the installation focuses on what remains: adaptation, displacement, and the transformation of fragmented bodies and myths in a damaged world.
Cut between human and animal, plant and mythical matter, the nymph is an entity, without a past or future. Ancient myth blends with contemporary urban reality, collapsing distinctions between beauty and darkness, underground and divine.
Fragmented monstrous parts, sea creatures, hybrid plants, and mythological symbols coexist with traces of the present, partially concealed beneath a silvered skin. Like water, like tears, it spreads across the surface, carrying memory, debris, desire, and pain where myth persists within fractured urban reality. 
Materials: Ceramics