{"id":10003734,"date":"2025-04-24T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=29044"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:36:22","slug":"solo-exhibition-valinia-svoronou-clocks-of-the-tides","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/en\/event\/solo-exhibition-valinia-svoronou-clocks-of-the-tides\/2025-05-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Exhibition: Valinia Svoronou &#8211; Clocks of the Tides"},"content":{"rendered":"<span data-sheets-root=\"1\">&#8220;Ah! That marvellous little thing \u2013 that fell into the sea \u2013 like a diamond slipped from the fingers of God. The abandoned pearl you long to place upon the alabaster neck of the beloved you adore.&#8221; <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span data-sheets-root=\"1\">This passage from a book by Akilas Milas evokes the Princes\u2019 Islands of the early 20th century as a jewel lost to the sea, a keepsake for a cherished beloved. Despite its old-fashioned phrasing, it conveys a powerful sense of a vanished place. Valinia Svoronou\u2019s exhibition captures such moments\u2014carried through intergenerational narratives, experienced by the artist and reshaped to reconcile with a time that is at once personal and collective, hazy and precise. Sculptural forms, notes and moving images become bulwarks in a world rich with memory: reflections from the Eastern Mediterranean, Athens, the Sea of Marmara and Asia Minor. These are moments of pause and re-formation\u2014fragments of places remembered and reimagined.<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ah! That marvellous little thing \u2013 that fell into the sea \u2013 like a diamond slipped from the fingers of God. The abandoned pearl you long to place upon the [&#8230;]<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/en\/event\/solo-exhibition-valinia-svoronou-clocks-of-the-tides\/2025-05-31\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Solo Exhibition: Valinia Svoronou &#8211; Clocks of the Tides<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29039,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","wds_primary_tribe_events_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[899,892,898],"class_list":["post-10003734","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","tribe_events_cat-free","tribe_events_cat-gallery","cat_exhibition","cat_free","cat_gallery","tribe-recurring-event","tribe-recurring-event-parent"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10003734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/10003734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10003734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10003734"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityfestival.thisisathens.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=10003734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}