A unique visual art project that combines art with poetry and everyday life with creative expression, is on view at the English Lodge in the Medieval City of Rhodes from Wednesday, November 11, through Sunday, November 15, 2026, with opening hours from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The exhibition is presented with the support of the Rhodes Association of Architecture and Cultural Heritage.

The exhibition “Bougada,” by artist Selina Kritikou, presents the unique world of Pebble Art, where pebbles are transformed into little stories, images, and snapshots of life. Taking as her starting point an image deeply rooted in everyday Greek life—laundry hanging out to dry—the artist constructs a visual narrative that combines painting with the natural form of the stone. Familiar objects that often go unnoticed become a source of play, emotion, and creative expression.

Laundry is not merely an everyday snapshot, but an image that carries memories, experiences, and emotions. It is connected to homes, neighborhoods, human relationships, and life’s little moments. Through her own artistic perspective, Selina Kritikou transforms this simple, everyday scene into a unique visual world.

A clothesline full of words and emotions

The exhibition is not limited to visual art. A special place in the exhibition will be reserved for poems by people from every corner of Greece, who responded to the artist’s open call for poetry and shared their own words with her. Poems that traveled from different places to come together in Rhodes and take their own place in this unique “collection.”

Each poem is a personal testimony, a thought, a feeling, a little story. Together, they form a collective work in which poetry meets imagery and individual expression becomes part of a shared creative experience. Thus, “Bougada” becomes a symbolic meeting place, a space where not only images are displayed, but also words, thoughts, and emotions of people who, even if they do not know one another, find a common way to communicate through art.

The Artist

Selina Kritikou lives and works in Rhodes. She has held nine solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her work titled “Flight” has been featured in the international art magazine Artist Talk Magazine, and her creations have also been showcased in the Greek press. She collaborates with art galleries in Greece and Cyprus. Using pebbles as her primary medium of expression, she creates compositions that highlight the uniqueness of natural stone and the ability of simple materials to be transformed into vessels of stories and emotion.

“Bougada” invites the public to discover a different way of viewing everyday life, interpreting images, and listening to words, as everyone has something of their own to share: a story, a thought, an emotion, or a verse.

Information

• Venue: England House, Museum Square, Medieval City of Rhodes
• Dates: Wednesday, November 11 through Sunday, November 15, 2026
• Hours: 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Admission: Free
• Contact number: 6958 604 057