ARTWORKS
Delta collaborates with ARTWORKS for the third consecutive year and presents works of Greek artists in the restaurant’s venue. The restaurant embraces art and organically integrates yearly rotating artworks in its interior and its surrounding spaces.
Following the concept of sustainability, we are invited to think of art as part of diverse ecosystems and interdependent interactions. The artists presenting their work at Delta Restaurant are awardees of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship Program by ARTWORKS.
Malvina Panagiotidi, Answers Without Questions, 2019
Malvina Panagiotidi (ARTWORKS Fellow) explores themes of transformation and uncertainty in Answers Without Questions, a sculptural work composed of twenty fragmented body parts that assemble into a complete form. Inspired by the epic Pharsalia by Lucan, the piece draws from the tale of the witch Erichtho, who practices necromancy by using dismembered bodies from the battlefield to summon an oracle and foresee the future.
In a reverse ritual, Panagiotidi sculpts each body part in wax, casting them from her own body. These fragments are then electroformed with copper, with the wax burned away to leave only the copper forms. The resulting assemblage resists resolution: it does not provide answers about the future but instead poses questions, challenging our desire for certainty and control in the face of the unknown.
Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Blue Dots, 2018
Chrysanthi Koumianaki’s artistic practice delves into the impact of signage and signs, drawing inspiration from the diverse “tools” integrated into the urban fabric to optimize behavior within bustling urban environments. Athens, a city brimming with seemingly unremarkable metal bars lining its streets—some bearing the marks of vandalism, while others remain steadfastly functional—becomes a canvas for shaping our physical experiences and proposing a fluid, timeless vocabulary.
In the work Blue Dots, the signs establish conventions that effortlessly bridge the realms of private and public spaces, merging different elements together.
Reminiscent of the digital realm, the presence of a blue dot serves as a visual cue frequently employed in user interfaces and maps, effectively drawing attention to specific locations or points of interest.
Moreover, the soothing associations of blue with calmness and tranquility infuse the artwork with a serene ambiance, not always expected in the public space. The sculptures themselves can be interpreted as a form of contorted signs, further adding to the multifaceted nature of the piece.
Through the utilization of geometric shapes, Koumianaki presents a captivating fictional symbolic system, giving rise to a shared vocabulary that transcends the conventional language.
Courtesy of the artist
SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018
Anastasia Pavlou, Untitled 2025,
Anastasia Pavlou’s work grows from an ongoing engagement with other artistic fields like installation, theatre, performance, and literature, as sources for developing pictorial methods. By examining how these fields generate meaning, she identifies structures that can be translated into visual form, allowing the image to arise through shifts in rhythm, movement, and symbolic transfer. Painting becomes a site where methods migrate across mediums and accumulate resonance. Her thinking around rehearsal and drawing plays a central role. These forms carry their own ontology: processes shaped by continual making, where significance emerges through transition rather than completion. Through this lens, Pavlou approaches the image as something activated through translation—an evolving constellation shaped by temporal structures, gestures, and the mutable relations between mediums. Her work traces how an image gains presence while remaining open, adaptive, and in motion
Valvinia Svoronou, A Summer’s Votive I, 2025
A Summer’s Votive I continues Svoronou’s research into gestures that intervene in time, place, and culture—affective details that glimmer at the edge of history. The sculpture, shaped as an oversized bow, recalls both ornament and offering. Attached to it, a ceramic fragment evokes the icon of Saint George Koudounas and the monastery on Prinkipo, where Greek and Turkish pilgrims tie ribbons and notes to trees as votives. Drawing from her family’s Rum lineage and minoritarian archives such as Akylas Millas’s writings, Svoronou traces an overlooked past and shared gestures that persist across displacement. Ceramics as a means to transform objects into witnesses, turning malleable substance into stone.
Petros Moris, Commons (1, 2 & 3), 2013
Commons (2013) by Petros Moris (ΑRTWORKS Fellow) is a series of ceramic-tile mosaic compositions derived from public domain vector graphics. These freely accessible digital images represent a distributed ethos of contemporary production and a special kind of digital cultural heritage. The work initiates a dialogue on the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and digital material. The mosaics, inherently fragmented, reflect the very nature of the medium, where individual pieces come together to form a unified whole. This fragmentation leaves the works suggesting they are in an ongoing state of becoming. Positioned between representation and abstraction, the pieces reference the archaeological fragment and the excavation pit, where artifacts are unearthed and reassembled, while also evoking the idea of something constantly in transition. Moris underscores the idea of shared resources, emphasizing the interplay between the enduring quality of ceramic tiles and the transient characteristics of digital presence. Through Commons, Moris invites contemplation on our engagement with digital culture, memory, and the processes of creation and transformation.
