[KÁMARES] LEMNOS // 2025

// Metamorphosis as a Toy

Κάμαρα [Kámara]
noun. A room, usually private, in a house or apartment, usually a bedroom
anc. Greek καμάρα < Italian camera < Spanish Cámara < French chambre < mod. Greek κάμαρα // Κάμαρες (plural) [Kámares]

// When the Toy Plays Back: A Quiet Riot of Selves

// installation / portraits / videos / relics /

In [KÁMARES] LEMNOS, the project lands for the first time on Euripides’ island of origin, inhabiting two buildings of the Permanent Exhibition on the History of Children’s Toys and Books in Myrina. In dialogue with the lifelong vision of archaeologist and author Christos Boulotis—who donated his personal collection—the museum becomes a poetic playground.

Presented for the first time in Greece, Metamorphosis as a Toy gathers portraits, videos, costumes, and scenic relics created by Euripides Laskaridis and collaborators over the past decade. The exhibition takes the shape of a slow, physical treasure hunt—an invitation to trace gestures, masks, and transformations through minimal means: a wig, a scrap of cotton, a fake nose.

Discreetly nestled among the museum’s vitrines, the SELF-PORTRAITS Series [2014–2021] echoes the toys around them—each image a handmade metamorphosis, conjured without digital tools or effects. The familiar made strange, the absurd turned magnetic.

The journey deepens in a nearby building, transformed into a small, self-contained universe. There, ARTIST PORTRAIT[2015] screens—a piercing reflection on identity and making, born in the shadow of the Greek crisis. A quiet threshold leads further: into a semi-theatrical space charged with memory. Early, unseen footage from the embryonic stages of RELIC (then titled VENUS) flickers on the wall—raw, tender, full of edge. A twin of the now-iconic costume stands unworn: a body without a past, a doll never played. Fragments from a decade’s journey—textures, traces, scenic ghosts—float like echoes.

Together, these elements compose a quiet riot of selves.
Playful. Absurd. Unresolved.
A toy theatre of metamorphoses, where object and subject, past and present, blur into one.

// where & when

GREECE // LEMNOS // Kournos Music Festival 2025 – Permanent Exhibition on the History of Children’s toys and books // 3-22 August 2025

// project info

[KÁMARES] LEMNOS // 2025
// installation / portraits / videos / relics 

conceived and created by // Euripides Laskaridis
exhibition curator // Stamatis Schizakis
creative production collaborator // Thomas Sfounis
visual communication //  Michalis Paraskakis

// costume figure/ exhibit [2025]
costume/ exhibit sewing & construction // Melina Terzaki
costume/ exhibit creative partner // Christos Delidimos
Euripides’ head-cast // Nektarios Dionysatos
creative collaborator // Timothy Laskaratos
lighting installation support // George Ierapetritis

// self-portraits [2014 – 2021]
collaborating photographers // Ioanna Plessa [2014] & Elina Giounanli [2021]
creative production assistants // Melina Terzaki [2014] & Dimos Klimenof [2021]

// artist portrait - video [2015]
conceived, created and performed by // Euripides Laskaridis
creative collaborator //  Ioanna Plessa
commissioned by // European Dancehouse Network & Duncan Dance Research Centre
produced by //  the OSMOSIS performing arts company

// venus - development phase video [2014]
rehearsal directorial consultant // Tatiana Bre
costume design // Angelos Mentis
rehearsal dramaturgy consultant // Alexandros Mistriotis
edited by // Euripides Laskaridis

commissioned by // Kournos Music Festival 2025 [GR]
produced by // the OSMOSIS performing arts company [GR]

special thanks to // Christos Boulotis, Dimitris Papaioannou, Vicky Marangopoulou, Penelope Iliaskou, Giorgos Poulios, Kyriacos Karseras, Simos Patieridis, Rena Laskaridou, Vicky Strataki, Vicky Kaminari, Konstantinos Chaldaios, Giorgos Hanos, Yannis Savouidakis, Nitsa Dora, Kostas and Pepi Doras, Giorgos Kotsalis, Mersa Varitou, Eliza Alexandropoulou, Thanasis Kalkanis, Sozon Besis, Charis Giannopoulou, Dimitra Sfounou, Christos Zacharopoulos, National Museum of Contemporary Art EMST, the Friends Association of the Toys and Books Museum, and its President Kostas Koutsogiannopoulos.

// see also