In “On the Search for Kalypso” artist-curator Georgia Stellin and video artist Erato Tzavara investigate personal geographies and historical fragments related to the Messinian coast in
Southwestern Peloponnese, Greece. The two researchers, having both visited the location at different moments in the summer of 2020, share untold stories, dreams, diary entries, and
impressions from their visits to the local Venetian ruins.

During their correspondence, two intertwined threads unravel. Methonian waters rise as a historical passage of great importance in the 16th-17th century trading route from Venice to
the East. The Messinian coast appears as a geographical archive of West to East commercial movement of the past, with underwater ruins of these journeys still existing in the present.
In parallel, a common imaginary is constructed and reconstructed between the two travellers in what seems like a fantastic journey in search of Atlantis. The subconscious flow leads them to the Mediterranean’s deepest point, Kalypso Deep, situated just outside the Methonian Coast, where they encounter a symbiotic interspecies system that breathes underwater.

At this point, questions on the Mediterranean as the borderless container of memory of myths, conquests, expeditions and utopian dreams arise.
By applying speculative archeologies and multilayered historical and (psycho)geographical excavations, the duo attempts to collate different imprints from travellers’ journeys, including their own, in order to capture and archive this continuous flow of populations, labour and imaginaries connected through the liquid pathways.

An assemblage of human and non human artefacts, historical, imaginary, artificial, abstraction thus creating an underwater mindscape.
A journey in deep waters, where desires lying on the sea bed resurface, opening new
possibilities of meaning.
Kalypso Deep is a place where race and gender do not exist, where animals and humans
understand each other through tentacular thinking, where the revolution is real and comes
from within.
A journey to uncover stratified layers of water and sand, where people, fortresses, sea muss
and shells also tell their stories through their echos and ripples in the water.