ELEONAS brings together the works of Inès Di Folco Jemni, Cham Lavant and Winnie Mo Rielly in an exhibition born from a physical place and an affective territory: a vast flea market on the outskirts of Athens, at the edge of the city, of memory and of time. Visited each week by a dense crowd of families, traders, tourists and everyday treasures, the Eleonas market has been run for several generations of Athens’ Romani community. It is an organic, living space, aggregating objects from Europe and the Mediterranean like a continuous wave.
The three artists, who met at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, have since developed distinctive but intertwined practices, attentive to the movements between bodies, objects and stories. At Eleonas they find a common ground: instinctive gestures, recomposed forms, gathered materials and invisibilised histories. A period of in-situ creation in Alkinois in spring 2026 gave rise to an initial three-voice exhibition: ELEONAS; spanning painting, drawing, sculpture and performance, accompanied by a publication produced in collaboration with independent publisher Adad Books.
The exhibition ELEONAS will travel between two sister cities that share a political, social and symbolic geography: Athens and Marseille. Two Mediterranean ports, crossed by ancient and contemporary human circulations, two border-cities marked by the tensions of tourism, post- colonialism and popular culture. ELEONAS will take place in both contexts, first at Alkinois (April–June 2026) and then at Sissi Club (Nov 26 – Jan 27) in Marseille. It thus carries a living memory between the two shores, linking two independent venues that each in their own way defend an art rooted in the shifting realities of their territory.
Winnie Mo Rielly works with photographic sculptures made from assembled objects and fragments of material, compositionally inspired by the Romani culture she comes from.
Inès Di Folco Jemni activates an object-memory through painting, inspired by market finds: alabaster jewellry boxes, embroidered sheets, faded silhouettes.
Cham Lavant is intrigued to quiet scenes of life, figures of women and children drawn with tender attention, based on her personal observations.
The market gives the exhibition its name ELEONAS, conceived as a space in transition, an archipelago of objects, stories and gestures. A place where forms circulate without hierarchy, where memory is built into material, where the edge becomes a source of heightened exchange and strength.
ELEONAS by Inès Di Folco Jemni, Cham Lavant and Winnie Mo Rielly
Opening Thursday 30th April from 7pm
Alkinois – Athens
April 30th – June 8th 2026
Sissi Club -Marseille Nov 2026 – Jan 2027
Supported by the ADAGP and the French Institute of Greece