Her Return

House of Lucie – Athens presents on Thursday, May 7th. the group exhibition titled “Her Return” featuring women photographers who have participated in the Return2Ithaca residency program over the past six years.

Participating Photographers: Alessia Rollo (IT), Alessandra Baldoni (IT), Elisa Mirales (ES), Maryam Firuzi(ΙR), Irene Zottola (ES), Aimilia Balaska (GR), Ioustini Drakoulakou (GR), Katerina Digoni (GR).

Curated by: Nina Kassianou
The exhibition explores the concept of return as a multidimensional experience: physical, emotional, and spiritual. Through female perspectives, it focuses on places and relationships shaped by time and distance. Here, return is not presented as a final destination, but as a continuous, repetitive movement.

The images suggest that returning to a place or a moment does not simply mean only recalling the past, but encountering it again while carrying with you all that has been gathered in the meantime.

The works draw inspiration from the Odyssey, not as a narrative of a heroic journey, but as a network of experiences and re-entries. A journey that traverses places, bodies, and temporalities, where return is neither linear nor definitive, but a movement that is repeated and transformed.
The photographs also engage with the female presences within the epic, figures who are not in constant motion, but who shape and define its course.
“Her Return” approaches the encounter with the past and with familiar places as an experience that is both contemporary and timeless, where bodies remember and space retains traces. It is not about arrival, but about what we carry with us each time we reappear. Each return becomes, at the same time, a new beginning.

Exhibition Opening: Thursday, May 7, 2026, at 19:00
Exhibition Duration: May 7 – May 30
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Friday: 16:00–20:00 and Saturday: 12:00–16:00
Admission is free to the public.