Lydia Delikoura’s (b.1996, Athens) practice embraces decay as both medium and metaphor, interrogating the passage of time through the deliberate deterioration of materials in her experimental canvases. Her work documents entropy as an active process while challenging conventional notions of preservation in art. This philosophy extends to her collaboration with ITERARTE in this exhibition, where her paintings remain unstretched or evolve into functional objects, each bearing witness to the natural evolution of their materials. 

For this exhibition, Delikoura engages in an ongoing dialogue with curator Tamara Chalabi, immersing viewers in a site-specific installation that dissolves boundaries between artwork and environment. A fragment of one of her paintings is enlarged into a custom pink wallpaper, wrapping the gallery into a dreamlike landscape. At the centre of this room sits The Yield, a weathered found stool, which the artist described as a “treasure”, reupholstered with a section of her painting. This act challenges static notions of display while inviting interaction.