Never on Sundays | Ποτέ την Κυριακή
An Exhibition of Collages by Ariane Severin
Micro Gallery
Opening: Friday 13.03.2026 | 18:30 – 21:30
Exhibition: 14.03. – 05.04.2026
Never on a Sunday presents sixteen photographic works from the 1960s depicting call girls alongside a solitary sailor. Each image is paired with a quotation from Homer’s Iliad, situating the works allowing a dialogue between classical mythology and modern constructions of gender, power, and desire. The use of mixed media—hand-coloured, collaged, and embroidered prints—further juxtaposes notions of women’s roles in society, oscillating between the “domestic” and the “wild.”
The women confront the male gaze head-on. They refuse submission, destabilising patriarchal modes of looking through fury, confidence, and collective strength. Evoking contemporary Amazons, they are armed with symbols of protection and knowledge. They function as oracles and truth-tellers—sexually aware, unapologetically sovereign, and unwilling to subjugate. Their bodies are not sites of consumption, but of resistance.
The lone sailor projects both desire and fear, yet remains powerless in the face of the force confronting him. He cannot penetrate their authority or autonomy. His presence marks a point of collapse: the moment at which patriarchal power falters and fails.
The exhibition is also an homage to Jules Dassin’s iconic 1960 Greek romantic comedy starring Melina Mercouri. The film narrates the encounter between a Greek prostitute and Homer, an American-Greek classicist, exposing the friction between imposed intellectual authority and embodied, lived freedom—a tension that reverberates throughout the exhibition.
