AADRL Director Theodore Spyropoulos has featured in a group show titled Art Communicating Conflict Resolution | Τεχνη: Λυση στην Συγκρουση at Casa Bianca, The Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki, Greece. The exhibition was opened this week by the mayor of Thessaloniki, Konstantinos Zervas, and features along with the drawings of the first president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela.

Minimaforms by Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos:

'Art and design can play a vital role in constructing a framework of understanding in times of distress. Art can humanize conflict and offer challenging and complex views on the subject itself. The art and design that we are speaking of engage these complexities and represent a voice that may have otherwise remained unheard. Art can serve as a testimony to conflict and communicate its implications across a host of mediums and audiences. Understanding necessitates a willingness to engage. Conflicting views are at times beyond disagreement and involve a crisis in communication. It is our belief that art and design offer an opportunity to construct new forms of communication that are shared and collective, addressing time, latency, and uncertainty. We believe in participatory and enabling models of art and design that allow people the opportunity to actively influence and shape their environment.'

Image: Minimaforms, 2022 (still). Courtesy of Theodore Spyropoulos