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SERPENTES, G\u00c9NIES, CHIM\u00c8RES<\/span><\/strong><\/div>
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Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos<\/p>

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Galerie La La Lande is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, \u201cSerpents, Genies, Chimeras \u2013 And Other Wonders,\u201d by Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos.\u00a0<\/p>

The opening reception for this solo show will take place on Thursday, April 23rd, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and the exhibition will be on view at the gallery, located at 56 rue Quincampoix, 75004 Paris, through Wednesday, May 20th, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>

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\u00a0\" As a multicultural female artist, I am driven by the need to locate myself\u2014to trace the shifting borders of my identity, to understand where I begin, where I end, and where I belong.<\/p>

My Greek heritage, shaped by Antiquity and centuries of Ottoman presence, carries within it the tension of East and West. This layered history seeps into my practice, which unfolds between the Mediterranean and the Arab world. Rather than searching for fixed origins, I approach my work as an act of excavation and reconstruction: unearthing fragments of memory, weaving together disparate traditions, and questioning how a woman\u2019s identity can emerge from\u2014and transcend\u2014what she inherits.<\/p>

Through large-scale installations, textiles, and sculptural forms, I strive to build a new visual grammar where Greek myths converse with Sufi poetry, and the delicacy of Persian miniatures meets contemporary gestures. These hybrid worlds allow me to speak of myself not as a singular whole, but as a constellation of layers, traces, and transformations\u2014an identity suspended between geographies, temporalities, and states of being. \"\u00a0<\/p>

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— Esmeralda\u00a0Kosmatopoulos<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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