EXHIBITION: ALEXANDROS SIMOPOULOS | EVERY BEACH I HAVE EVER SLEPT IN

Iris presents the second solo exhibition of Alexandros Simopoulos, entitled Every beach I have ever slept in. The series constitutes a personal mapping of the beaches where the artist has fallen asleep throughout his life. Some of these have already disappeared, while others face the same threat. Drawing on memories, imaginary fragments, and photographic archives, Simopoulos paints landscapes that have been experienced repeatedly and under different circumstances. His work engages with children’s imagery, folk painting, and the history of landscape painting—not in order to faithfully depict the shores, but to reinscribe them as emotional and imaginative places. Sleeping on the beach becomes an act of embodied memory and sensory coexistence with the landscape. The beach thus emerges as a space of relation, healing, and enchantment—a place where body and environment intertwine, generating new forms of experience. The works also function as open questions concerning the present and future of our collective relationship with the coastal environment: How can we inhabit it without depleting it? How can it remain a common good? And what modes of desire, rest, and engagement with the environment are still possible?

Alexandros Simopoulos | Every beach I have ever slept in
Opening: September 16, 2025, 6-10pm
Ιris Gallerie
12, AntinorosΑντήνορος 12, 11634, Athens
Tuesday-Friday 12-7pm
Saturday 12-3 pm