LIKE WILDFLOWERS IN THE CRACKS

Focusing on moving image, Like wildflowers in the cracks gathers eight films that consider hope through
the lens of resistance, rising from cracks in our existing dominant systems. As bell hooks reminds us,
“hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the social climate promotes
disillusionment and despair”. The project reflects on memory, persistence, resistance and love as deeply
human acts that survive within environments promoting uncertainty, exhaustion and apathy. Like
wildflowers that push their way through concrete, hope appears where the surface cracks, offering room
for new possibilities to emerge and take form.

Part A: 15 January 2026, 20.00
Like wildflowers in the cracks: What we carry
Part A turns to the ties between past and present, memory and identity. It looks at how lived experience,
oral histories, music, and poetry can unsettle official accounts and carry knowledge across generations.
Through these shared stories, openings appear that question the structures that shape how we
understand the world.

PART B: 16 January 2026, 20.00
Like wildflowers in the cracks: Signals from the otherwise
Part B focuses on word-building and alternative realities that challenge dominant narratives. These works
push against patriarchal, capitalist, technological, legal frameworks, as well as linear time. In this meeting
point between myth and reality, identity shifts, and new forms of resistance, care, and collective life begin
to emerge.

Participating artists: Diogo da Cruz and Fallon Mayanja, Shuruq Harb, Agape Harmani, Phuong
Thao Nguyen, Eva Papamargariti, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Tai Shani, Jala Wahid
Curated by: Despoina Tzanou
Location: B&M Theocharakis Foundation, Athens

*Despoina Tzanou and Eva Papamargariti are ARTWORKS Fellows