The exhibition titled Thráfsmata presents the material created during the second cycle of the artist residency program at bEam arts. Within the span of just one month, the two artists utilized their time and space in the city of Thessaloniki to produce a new body of visual work.

Despite the different artistic media they employ, they both showed interest in aspects of the city itself—facets that ultimately appear in multiple ways as fragments in their works.

Ane Gómez is originally from Spain, where she studied painting and graphic arts, followed by postgraduate studies in Colombia. Her main medium of expression is large-scale painting. However, during her time at bEam arts, her work took on a sculptural direction.

The Thessaloniki port pier and the rippling sea, especially in the early morning hours, became for her a point of initial attraction, obsession, and visual recording. At the same time, the architectural palimpsest of

Thessaloniki, with remnants of the city's older forms, pushed her to create her own fragments.

The work she presents in this exhibition is a series of drawings and sculptures in which she visually interprets, through her own gaze, her attraction to the play of light on water and the remnants of antiquity.

Maxime Déria is a self-taught artist from France. Beginning with street art, he soon engaged with painting and was later captivated by the art of collage, which became his primary focus.

He works as a bricoleur, constantly collecting images and materials which he incorporates into his creative practice. Posters from the street, magazines, advertising prints—all can serve as raw material for

his work. He works both intuitively and meticulously, playing with subconscious messages and hidden references, often incorporating elements of language: French, English, and, in his current work, Greek.

The collage series he presents as the result of his residency at bEam arts is, in a way, a visual diary of his presence in the city, infused with imagery from his own homeland. French fashion magazines converse with posters and flyers gathered from the streets of Thessaloniki, creating contrasts and playful narratives, and ultimately, a poetics of the fragment.

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