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As part of the exhibition αρχείο écho ηχώ xoxo by artist-in-residence Théo Robine-Langlois, curated by the artistic director Vassilis Zidianakis, ATOPOS cvc is pleased to announce the exhibition opening hours alongside an expanded public program. Bringing together voices from fashion, poetry, publishing and beyond, the program unfolds through conversations, guided tours and events that remain in continuous dialogue with the exhibition.

Each public encounter becomes not simply an accompaniment to the exhibition, but an active contribution to the evolving Affective Archives: expanding, renewing and reshaping its embodied and affective dimensions. Through these collective acts of exchange, memory and presence, the program further extends the archival turn toward affective and lived forms of knowledge, while continuously opening new possibilities within the ATOPOS cvc collection.

ΕΧΗΙΒΙΤΙΟΝ OPENING HOURS
ATOPOS cvc, Polydeukous 41A, 185 31, Piraeus

Every Thursday 12:00 – 20:00
04.06.2026, 11.06.2026, 18.06.2026, 25.06.2026, 02.07.2026

PUBLIC PROGRAM

BEYOND ATOPOS cvc: O Meteoritís, Fokionos Negri 68, Athens 113 61

FRIDAY 05.06

19:00 CRUE by Théo Robine-Langlois at O Meteoritis: in dialogue with ATOPOS cvc Archive and the RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion Collection
Vassilis Zidianakis in conversation with Théo Robine-Langlois
Language: French

Presentation of Théo Robine-Langlois’ latest book, CRUE, published by Dépense Défensive in May 2026. Structured around a ternary rhythm, CRUE unfolds through free tercets interspersed with enigmatic typographical symbols whose meaning seems lost in a flood.
Alongside a reading by the author, a conversation with Vassilis Zidianakis, artistic director of ATOPOS cvc, will explore Théo Robine-Langlois’ residency and exhibition, currently on view at ATOPOS cvc. A poem written during the residency will also be read, opening questions around translation between visual poetry and paper clothing.
Vassilis Zidianakis will additionally present the RRRIPP catalogue, documenting a series of exhibitions from the ATOPOS cvc archives across several European museums, each proposing a new approach to the history and future of paper in fashion.

All events below take place at ATOPOS cvc (Polydeukous 41A, 185 31 Piraeus), free of charge, without reservation.

SATURDAY 06.06

18:30 Dress as a Surface of Public Statement
Meti Tsoukatou in conversation with Théo Robine-Langlois
Language: English

What happens when typographic and graphic elements (words, logos, titles, slogans, images, poems) do not remain on the page, but are worn and circulate? Historically, garments bearing text have been used by individuals and groups to declare identity, promote products, ideas, or political campaigns, claim visibility and express protest.
In dialogue with Théo Robine-Langlois’s exhibition, this guided tour presents paper garments from the RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion Collection of ATOPOS cvc, in which writing and image are incorporated into clothing and traces their histories.
The paper dress from Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign, worn by the so-called “Nixonettes”; Harry Gordon’s Poster Dresses; the New York poetry and art magazine Spanner, transformed into a Tyvek suit; and Demna Gvasalia’s Paper Polo become starting points for a discussion around dress as a surface of writing, political statement and public presence. Through these objects, and in relation to Théo Robine-Langlois’s references — from Sonia Delaunay’s poem-dresses and Paul Poiret’s logo to contemporary gestures of political statement in fashion —the tour examines how text on dress transforms the body into a moving system of signs, open to reading and interpretation.

19:30 [Un]made to Measure: Fabrics, Lives, Poems
Stamatina Dimakopoulou in conversation with Théo Robine-Langlois
Language: English

In his five minutes for the Appelle-moi poésie (Call me poetry) series in February 2024, Théo Robine-Langlois gets out of a car whose tyres are submerged in water facing what I take to be the sea against a grey sky and reads from his mobile phone a short poem titled De la mésure which can be multiply understood to be about measure: measures that range from the metrical patterns of poetry, to measuring something such as damage for instance, to be sensible, to beat time in music, and perhaps to clothes ‘made to measure’ a central metaphor of a much earlier poem by the American poet James Merrill titled Dreams about Clothes (1972) where fabrics and measure are made and unmade in ways that also assess not only damage but also the fabric of the life that one lives. Such metaphors and anxieties about what lasts and what persists, what remains and what goes to waste are induced by several paper garments of the the ATOPOS cvc collection, and in dialogue with the poets, we can reflect on how fabrics, lives, poems are entangled, weathering, indissociable and apart, made and unmade ‘to measure’.

SUNDAY 07.06

18:30 NEW NARRATIVES FOR THE NOW
Dimitra Ioannou in conversation with Théo Robine-Langlois
Language: English

A) GLIMPSE) OF) press was founded in 2009 by Dimitra Ioannou with the vision to generate new territories of meaning by featuring radical and experimental works. The press has published so far the magazines A) GLIMPSE) OF and brossura, and the poetry books blUe magnets: a few millibreaths away from intimacy by Yiannis Andronidis and 93 (para)domestic stories for Helen by Sofia Bempeza. Dimitra Ioannou, who is also designing brossura, will talk about her editorial process and how the idea behind A) GLIMPSE) OF) took shape in various forms.

SUNDAY 07.06

19:30 Garment Soundscapes
Lydia Panagou in conversation with Théo Robine-Langlois
Language: English

From the pages of The New York Spanner in 1970s New York to the ATOPOS cvc archive in Piraeus and the cryptic writing of Théo Robine-Langlois, Lydia Panagou traces the echoes of a garment that resonates, whispers and remembers. Moving through textures, fragments and punctuation marks, the narrative unfolds as an act of sonic decoding.

TUESDAY 09.06

18:30 Adventures in Visual Poetry
Caterina Stamou in conversation with Théo Robine-Langlois
Language: English

Looking at various works of visual poetry, Théo Robine-Langlois and Caterina Stamou will discuss asemic writing — a form of handwritten, abstract writing that has no semantic meaning — in relation to translation and un/translatability as mediated through gesture, space, sound, embodiment and affect. Drawing from their overlapping practices and references, as well as the exhibition’s artistic and research methodologies, they will touch on how poetry engages the visual and the illegible to resist containment and expand resonance. Toward the end, the audience will be invited to participate in an exercise in asemic writing, responding to elements from the exhibition.

19:30 Days 1719: The Positions of April
Thodoris Chiotis in conversation with Théo Robine-Langlois
Language: English

This presentation examines the development and documentation of autobiographical narration in real time. The narration will incorporate digital material collected through digital tracking devices (GPS trackers, health-monitoring applications, search engine histories, data derived from digital media such as audio recordings and videos along with their accompanying metadata, as well as personal notes and reflections). The presentation will then explore the ways in which mediated autobiographical narration becomes an archive of the self and how one transcribes this archive.

SATURDAY 20.06

18:30 ‘Text’ or ‘Textile’? ‘Written’ Garments in the ATOPOS cvc RRRIPP!! Collection
Interactive guided tour for children and adults by Myrsini Pichou
Language: English

Can paper be considered a textile material? The term ‘text’ relates to ‘texture’ and ‘textile’ and traces back to texo – ‘to weave’, referring to the way words and sentences are ‘woven’ together. Are there such things as garments that can be read like written pages? However strange this may sound, there are clothes from different cultures and historical periods that are made of paper covered with texts. In the context of  aρχείο écho ηχώ xoxo exhibition by Théo Robine-Langlois, Myrsini Pichou will address the above themes and questions in an interactive guided tour. Through the observation of specific items from the ATOPOS cvc RRRIPP!! collection on display such as the newspaper and the Yellow Pages paper dresses, the public will explore the association of ‘text’ with garments as well as the connection between fancy dress and newspaper with the ephemeral. Furthermore, all participants, adults and children alike, will learn how to make their own newspaper hat!!

TUESDAY 23.06
19:30 Slogans and Prints in Fashion at the Turn toward the 21st Century
Stella Lizardi
Language: Greek

Since the late 19th century, slogans and prints have served as fashion’s way of commenting on the spirit of the times. From the ribbons and rosettes bearing protest phrases invented by the suffragettes as the visual identity of their movement, and the newspaper-print fabrics designed by Elsa Schiaparelli, to the infamous newspaper dress created by John Galliano for Dior in 2000, as well as the recent Cruise 2026 collections by Chanel and Dior, fashion’s visual vocabulary continually returns to slogans and graphic collages functioning as wearable manifestos or mantras. Chaotic, political, and intended to provoke, these “signs” printed on fabric or paper have operated as statements of protest against the cynicism of the 1980s, as cries of sexual activism in the early 1990s, or as visual canvases communicating the work of important artists through fashion. Today, they return once again within a political and social landscape in which fashion’s voice needs to be heard anew, advocating tolerance and beauty.

FRIDAY 26.06
19:30 Analysis and Conservation of a Japanese Paper Garment Shifu
Kyriaki Lentzi and Yorgos Facorellis
Language: Greek

This guided tour presents the research of Kyriaki Lentzi and Georgios Facorellis on the conservation of Shifu, a rare Japanese paper garment from the ATOPOS cvc collection, situated within Japanese practices where writings from account books are twisted into threads and transformed into textiles. Crafted from handmade paper yarn using traditional weaving techniques, Shifu embodies a centuries-old practice connecting papermaking and textile production.
The tour examines the conservators’ work through historical documentation, visual analysis, and scientific methods, including SEM-EDX microanalysis and resistance testing under varying humidity and temperature conditions. It also demonstrates conservation approaches emphasizing minimal intervention and reversibility, such as photographic documentation, aqueous cleaning and consolidation treatments.
First shown in RRRIPP!! Fashion from Paper at the New Benaki Museum in 2007, Shifu stands as a key example of material, historical, and cultural memory, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research in preserving delicate paper-based objects.