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Night Garden unfolds as an inward landscape shaped through an embodied process of drawing, where charcoal becomes both medium and gesture. Abstract traces emerge as vegetal and bodily forms, suspended between appearance and disappearance, creating a space where memory, desire, and the unconscious take material form.​

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Takis Karababas works with the organic nature of charcoal, where gesture and material generate evolving forms. These presences shift between abstraction and figuration, forming archaic, unstable configurations that resist fixed identities. The work unfolds as an interconnected landscape—not as a depiction of place, but as a terrain where the material and the unconscious converge.​ Conceived as a field of passage and contemplation, this landscape turns inward—an unstable ground to be navigated rather than defined. Within it, withered forms persist like flowering embers, holding a tension between transformation, loss, and renewal, while latent narratives evoke fundamental human experiences of time, vulnerability, and mortality.

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Bio

Takis Karababas (b. 1994, Athens) is a visual artist working primarily in painting and drawing. He holds an Integrated Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2018) and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2023).

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