THE WAVES CRASHING CURATED BY KOSTAS STASINOPOULOS

To begin a wave is to relinquish certainty: you may never hear it crash, never see where or how it breaks. To be able to receive a wave demands a profound reorientation of internal and external intentions and politics. The Waves Crashing takes the wave as a mode of relating, one that refuses linear progression, fixed address, or immediate resolution. Against dominant models of communication that privilege clarity, speed, and mastery, The Waves Crashing proposes delay, resonance, and return. To allow time for a wave to travel to reach a body, a place, a memory, or a future listener, is to also insist on a pause: a space for reflection that is increasingly disallowed within contemporary regimes of productivity, articulation and advancement. In this suspended time lies the possibility of adjustment, repair, recall, and reorientation: a space to inhabit and consider what has been thought, uttered, or enacted, and what might still be undone or reimagined. As a form of address, waves operate at the level of the unconscious and support imagination over rigidity and reason. Their rhythms invite drifting, dreaming, and attunement, while their persistence carries memory across far-away lands through bodies, time and discourse. They move between what is legible and what remains unspeakable; between what can be historicised and what can only be communed, felt, and shared. The artists and participants in The Waves Crashing invite us to become one with the waves, to embrace alternate modes of coming together and to anticipate that meaning, consequence, or impact from these moments may only become perceptible later, elsewhere, or otherwise.

VIMA Art Fair 15–17 May 2026
The Warehouse by IT Quarter
Limassol
Cyprus

https://www.vima.art/

*Kostas Stasinopoulos is member of the Selection Committee of the 2026 ARTWORKS Grants program