A group exhibition of site-specific installations across the Greek island of Leros

30 June – 18 August 2024

Nestled in the Dodecanese Islands very close to Turkey’s mainland, the island bears the marks of a
diverse and sometimes turbulent history, including decades of Italian occupation, which shaped the
island’s distinctive architecture. Leros’s architectural landscape, characterized by urban neoclassicism
and early Italian modernism in tandem with the archaic tradition and nature of the island, becomes the

setting for All Things Become Islands Before My Senses. Artworks will be installed across six key
locations including:
 The Cinema Roma and The Elementary School, iconic Rationalist buildings completed in the
1930s as part of the new city development of Portolago whilst the island was under Italian
occupation.
The Muro d’Ascolto, or the ‘listening wall’, an architecturally iconic structure on Mount Patella
is an analogue radar which was built with the purpose to detect and locate approaching enemy
aircraft utilising acoustic waves.
The Old Barracks of Xerokampos, abandoned from the island’s former Italian and German
occupation, featuring an unexpected series of frescoes, such as copies of ‘Brueghel The Elder’
painted by its former occupiers.
The Leros Nautical Club, an important island institution established in 1979 inside a
renovated ammunition storage building at Koulouki Bay.
The Perasma Space, a dedicated Perasma exhibition space, located in a neoclassical
mansion built in 1886, in Agia Μarina.