From September 17 to November 2, 2025, The Breeder in Athens presents “Forever Fish”, a solo exhibition by Aristeidis Lappas.
Following his first institutional solo presentation “Gift of the Moon Crab” at Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany (2024), works from that exhibition are shown in Greece for the first time, alongside a new body of work created especially for The Breeder.
Ecological urgency and poetic metaphor
The title “Forever Fish” references “forever chemicals” — human-made substances that remain indefinitely in water ecosystems. Here, the fish becomes a symbolic figure of both endurance and vulnerability, highlighting our precarious relationship with aquatic life and fragile ecological balances.
Through painting, sculpture, sound, and installation, Lappas creates immersive environments where figuration and abstraction coexist. His luminous depictions of riverine and oceanic creatures hover between myth and biology, while textiles, sculptural interventions, and murals extend the imagery into space, inviting viewers into multisensory encounters that blur the boundaries between human and more-than-human worlds.
Water as memory and healing
In “Forever Fish”, water emerges as both subject and metaphor: a vital element, a vessel of memory, and a surface marked by human impact. Lappas’s works embody this duality, where gestures of care and healing are shadowed by undercurrents of ecological fragility.
Guided by his search for “a language of healing,” Lappas proposes an artistic practice that rejects anthropocentric frameworks and embraces the interdependence of all life forms, memories of summers past — personal recollections that echo the universal allure of the sea.
