Like wildflowers in the cracks
Diogo da Cruz & Fallon Mayanja, Shuruq Harb, Agape Harmani, Phuong Thao Nguyen, Eva Papamargariti, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Tai Shani, and Jala Wahid
Focusing on moving image, Like Wildflowers in the Cracks unfolds as a two-day screening event that considers hope through the lens of resistance, rising from cracks in our existing dominant systems. Hope, as bell hooks reminds us, is essential to any struggle for radical change, especially in times shaped by disappointment and social distance. The exhibition reflects on how memory, persistence, and love can operate within environments that often promote exhaustion and apathy, becoming deeply human acts that resist hopelessness. Like wildflowers that force their way through concrete, hope appears where the surface breaks, offering room for new possibilities to take form.
Part A turns to the ties between past and present, memory and identity. It looks at how lived experience, oral histories, music, and poetry unsettle official accounts and carry knowledge across generations. Through these shared stories, openings appear that question the structures that shape how we understand the world.
Part B focuses on alternative realities that challenge dominant narratives. These works push against patriarchal, capitalist, technological, legal frameworks, as well as linear time. In this meeting point between myth and reality, identity shifts and new forms of resistance, care, and collective life begin to emerge.
5 December 2025, B&M Theocharakis Foundation, Athens
Like wildflowers in the cracks (Part A): What we carry
16 January 2026, B&M Theocharakis Foundation, Athens
Like wildflowers in the cracks (Part B): Signals from the otherwise
(All images courtesy of the artists)