Gnorimeet the locals"ARGYRO IBRAHIMI"
ARGYRO IBRAHIMI
Untitled – Fashion Design & Painting
Argyro Ibrahimi was born in 1994 in Tirana, Albania. At a young age, she emigrated to Greece with her family. Early on, she showed a strong interest in the arts, especially painting, and went on to study fashion design.
She worked for three years in the studio of Sheila Kritharioti, where she immersed herself in the world of aesthetics and fashion. Despite her background in fashion, painting remains her passion and a deeply personal form of expression.
Argyro believes that love is the greatest power on the planet, and that experiencing love brings a sense of inner peace. That feeling is what she strives to convey and experience through her art.
Artist's Note
This essay is meant to describe my experience of my exhibition at the station,
but I can’t do that without talking about the “manhunt” it took to get there—which turned into a beautiful experience.
It’s October 2022, and by chance I end up at one of the first events hosted by the Cultterra group. That’s where I meet Fiorinda, who starts chasing me (lovingly) to participate—just like she’s been chasing me now to write this text! So… without pressure… eventually, I held my own exhibition at the end of 2023.
My first exhibition, with my first canvases, took place at the old railway station in Elefsina. On most days, not many people came—and I’m honestly glad, because those who did were important.
I saw people—strangers and friends, art-savvy and not—interacting with my paintings, which don’t shout any loud message, yet still managed to evoke all the emotions I felt while painting them. I heard things like:
"I feel like I can walk into this and wander around."
"It’s like I’m in a parallel universe."
"Just looking at it calms me down."
Let me tell you: my whole life feels like a pair of rose-colored glasses—emotions and colors. I truly live by the belief that love is the strongest force, and that's what I've always tried to express—though I didn’t know how, until now.
Painting chose me when I was a child, but this year, I finally managed to release everything onto a canvas. And to hear ordinary people say that they understood, at a glance, what I’ve been trying to say for years—that was profound for me.
This is a beginning I might never have made if I hadn’t done the exhibition at the station. No, there wasn’t a big buzz—at least not at mine. But it didn’t bother me at all. If anything, it was a blessing—because sometimes, in the noise, you lose sight of the real reason we make art.
Maybe it’s so that what’s inside of us can finally be heard.