Nuances of the Night by Marilena Kranioti
Opening on All Hallows’ Eve 2025, the cycle begins with a meditation on death. Nuances of the Night, created by Marilena Kranioti and curated by Bianca Bauer is devoted to loss, grief, remembrance, and transience.
The work does not resolve grief but holds it — shaping a space where endings remain alive, still vibrating with presence. Rooted in personal loss yet speaking universally, Nuances of the Night invites us to walk the delicate edge between presence and disappearance, to see death not as an end but as part of life’s inevitable cycle.
Poetic Reflection
For Marilena Kranioti, the night is both inspiration and threshold. A space of transition where endings and beginnings overlap. From this darkness emerged the moth, a fragile traveler driven by curiosity and inner searching, moving through darkness in exploration, seeking warmth and light. It becomes a bearer of messages between life and death, desire and loss, presence and absence.
Her installation Nuances of the Night weaves together metal, light, and salt: metal, chthonic and drawn from the depths of the earth, gives the moth a physical presence; light traces its passage and reveals its transformation; salt recalls ancient rituals, preservation, and tears — crystallizing the link between longing and memory.
Here, material, light, and motion coexist. The work is not static but alive — unfolding in continuous change, echoing the restless flight of the moth and the shifting nature of the night itself. Through these elements, Kranioti creates an environment where the soul’s journey through darkness becomes visible — a meditation on transformation, disappearance, and awakening.
Biography
Marilena Kranioti (b. 1997, Greece) is a visual artist living and working in Athens. She graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts with a focus on sculpture. Her work has been presented at the Numismatic Museum, the Italian Embassy in Athens, the Athens Conservatory, the Public Tobacco Factory, the Athens Megaron, the Byzantine and Christian Museum, the Delphi Museum, the Bagion, the Isaiah Mansion, and the Blender Gallery. Widely featured in the Greek press, she co-runs CK45, a collaborative studio and art space in Neos Kosmos, since 2022.