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ATOPOS cvc announces the opening of the exhibition αρχείο écho ηχώ xoxo by artist-in-residence Théo Robine-Langlois on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 between 18:00 and 22:00, at its new exhibition venue in Piraeus (Polydefkous 41A) curated by the artistic director, Vassilis Zidianakis. The exhibition foregrounds archival material from the ATOPOS cvc collection of paper garments—revisited and reactivated after a long period—and brings them into dialogue with the artist’s ongoing research and residency development. At its core are one-to-one graphic translations of garments rendered as poems, situated between visual poetry and portraiture.

A sound event will take place on May 19th at 20:00, where Théo Robine-Langlois and CERB will blend voices from poets of the 20th century with abstract beats spanning the 1990s to the present day. The exhibition will be accessible during the public program encouraging embodied and forms of participation. More information will be announced soon.

These works are presented alongside three main ensembles from the collection: Japanese practices named Shifu, in which writings from account books are twisted into threads and turned into garments; a New York–based poetry and art periodical named Spanner transformed into a Tyvek suit stamped across its four issues; Poster Dresses, including a poem by Allen Ginsberg, as well as garments composed from collaged newspapers, where the language of the press dissolves. A sound work accompanies the exhibition, combining sung fashion brand names performed by French hip-hop musicians with field recordings from the textile industry in England.

Through his engagement with the collection, Robine-Langlois examines how language may be embedded within garments, fragmented into patterns, or concealed within their construction, in resonance with the American artist, composer and music theorist Dick Higgins’s theorization of visual poetry and its relationship to ornament.

Together, these materials constitute an evolving corpus that informs the artist’s ongoing development of a book of poetry, extending methods of transcription and recomposition explored in his eighth publication Corbeau (2025, Riga). This process seeks to articulate a new visual language and grammar, in which glyphs and letters are transformed through bodies and fabrics.

This residency, supported by the Fondation des Artistes marks the second step of a broader investigation spanning in multiple sites, including Cordoba (Spain) where the artist will study the traces of Wallada Bint Al-Mustakfi, a poet from the 11th Century and Oslo (Norway), where future research will take place at the International Library of Fashion Research and its collections of printed ephemera. The first step took place in Paris, drawing on the Galliera’s archives and focusing on writing practices on clothing during the 20th century.

This exhibitions forms part of Affective archives, which explores the possibilities ready to be enacted and released in our organization’s archive.