Weights of Art When Weight Becomes Image

What does it mean to lift a weight? And what happens when the weight the body lifts becomes the burden carried by memory, desire, history and culture? With these questions, visual artist Ennios-Eros Giogos presents his solo exhibition Weights of Art at Imagine Visual Arts, curated by art historian Helen Gatsa. The exhibition opens on Saturday 17 October 2026, from 19:00 to 22:00, and remains open to the public until 7 November 2026.

A gorilla, Socrates, a pair of lips and a burger meet on the same handle. Sculpture becomes the field in which ancient philosophy, consumer culture, animal strength and contemporary self-image take on a shared volume.

The series starts from an object we recognise at first glance: the kettlebell, made for effort, endurance and repetition. The artist keeps its characteristic spherical mass and arched handle as a constant morphological base, and on it builds a wide range of images and symbols: animals, faces, bodies, historical figures, archetypal forms, everyday objects and symbols of contemporary society. Glossy blacks, bronze tones and vivid reds, yellows and pinks give the series the immediacy and energy of the Pop image.

In the artist’s own words: “The kettlebell, or drami, after the old Greek unit of weight, condenses for me the dual meaning of weight: as a physical load and as an existential responsibility towards the things we are bound to work through. On this form I make works about the questions that preoccupy me.” The statement distils the central axis of the series. An object of physical exercise becomes a sculptural vehicle for thought. The gesture of lifting moves from the body to memory, and from muscular effort to the realm of ideas.