The Italian artist Alfredo Romano is invited to shape a new awareness of the Other: the immigrant, the refugee, the different.

Through new works conceived during his visit to Eleusis, and earlier works presented on the occasion of the exhibition “Angelis suis mandavit de te” at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi and the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens, he focuses on the drama of migration, loss and hunger, which is inherent in Mediterranean culture. Romano stirs up the trauma, the pain and the memory of uprooting, and inevitably points to today’s migration crisis. Migration and otherness are concepts bound up with the historical and mythological past of Eleusis, and they respond to the concerns of the first edition of the Synikismos Festival.

With the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens and the Giorgio Persano gallery.