> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # After Stone, Dimitrios Antonitsis Lets the Island Dream in Water - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/dimitrios-antonitsis-hydra-school-projects/ - Published: 2026-07-16T03:35:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-07-25T20:08:39.000Z - Description: An independent review of Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams) at Hydra School Projects on Hydra Island, curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, through Sept 6. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Hydra Island, Exhibition, Material & Sculpture, Myth & Folklore ## Hydra School Projects Presents Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams) on Hydra [**Hydra School Projects**](https://www.instagram.com/hydraschoolprojects/?hl=en&ref=catapult-platform.art) presents Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams), curated by **Dimitrios Antonitsis**, through September 6, 2026. As the second edition of Hydra School Projects’ three-year trilogy, the exhibition follows last year’s [***Lithos/Lethe (Stone/Oblivion)***](https://www.catapult-platform.art/hydra-school-projects-lithos-and-lethe-curated-by-dimitrios-antonitsis/), shifting from stone to water. ![Exhibition review catapult contemporary of Dimitrios Antonitsis: Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams) at Hydra School Projects, ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/HYDOR-ONAR_Water_of_Dreams__Pinelopi_Gerasimou-4-1.webp) **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)* at ****Hydra School Projects**, amphitheatre courtyard with ****Styliane Philippou's** marble sculpture (installation view), 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. A year ago, this exhibition asked visitors to stand still with stone. Now the ground gives way. If permanence needs solid matter to hold its shape, dreaming needs the opposite, something that moves, absorbs, and forgets its own edges by morning. --- **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)** **Artists:** Dimitrios Antonitsis, Ashley Bickerton, Joe Bradley, Hussein Chalayan, Despina Charitonidi, Jannis Kounellis, Brice Marden, Ayumi Paul, Styliane Philippou, Daniel Silver, Fokion Zissiadis **Exhibition:** Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams) **Venue:** Hydra School Projects at Lyceum **City:** Hydra, Greece **Dates:** June 20, 2026 – September 6, 2026 **Hours:** 11:30 – 14:00 & 19:30 – 22:00 **Address:** End of Gkika N. Kouloura Street, Hydra, Greece **Curator:** Dimitrios Antonitsis **Photography:** Pinelopi Gerasimou **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy Hydra School Projects --- ![Exhibition review of Dimitrios Antonitsis, portrait of the curator and artist beside his black ink Shrouds paintings, Hydra, 2026..](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/curator--artist--hydra-school-projects-dimitrios-antonitsis.webp) ****Dimitrios Antonitsis** with works from **Shrouds*, installation view, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. Water does not just illustrate this shift, it enacts it. It reflects a face back distorted, cools a body it barely touches, and drips through a form built to hold it before disappearing into the stone floor. Nothing here stays dry for long. The exhibition again occupies Hydra's former high school, its white stairwell folding down into an amphitheatre courtyard that doubles as stage and drain. --- > Water does not hold a shape long enough to become a monument. That may be the reason to choose it after stone. --- The exhibition again occupies Hydra’s former high school, extending across three classrooms and the amphitheatre courtyard. The building was created for teaching rather than display, and its original character remains present in the encounter with the works. In the courtyard, **Styliane Philippou** places blocks of green Tinos marble within a shallow mirror of standing water, their fractured profiles suspended somewhere between rock formations and reclining bodies. Up close, the veining doubles across the water’s surface until stone and reflection begin to trade places. The work invites a physical as well as visual encounter, turning self-recognition into something unstable, softened and continually remade by reflection. ![Exhibition review of Despina Charitonidi, a leaf shaped ceramic and metal fountain with running water in a terracotta basin, Hydra, 2026.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/despina-charitonidi-hydor-onar-hydra-school-projects-hydra-2026-work-02.webp) ****Despina Charitonidi**, commissioned fountain, installation view, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. ![Exhibition review of Styliane Philippou: a visitor reclines on a green marble sculpture set in a shallow black reflecting pool, Hydra, 2026.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/styliane-philippou-hydor-onar-hydra-school-projects-hydra-2026-work-01.webp) ****Despina Charitonidi**, commissioned fountain, detail, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. **Despina Charitonidi**’s commissioned ceramic fountain introduces a different movement of water. Its barnacled, rust-stained forms are modelled on the circular feeding patterns of humpback whales, bringing natural coordination into tension with the industrial structures increasingly present within marine environments. ![Exhibition review of Jannis Kounellis, row of wooden chairs each holding a white bowl of water with a knife and a live goldfish, Hydra, 2026.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/jannis-kounellis-hydor-onar-hydra-school-projects-hydra-2026-work-05.webp) ****Jannis Kounellis**, installation view, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. ![Green resin artwork in the foreground with six wooden chairs holding bowls of water and knives along the gallery wall behind.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/HYDOR-ONAR_Water_of_Dreams__Pinelopi_Gerasimou-83.webp) Installation view with works by ****Ashley Bickerton** and ****Jannis Kounellis**, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. ![Exhibition review of Ashley Bickerton, large translucent green resin panel with embedded coral-like clusters, gallery installation, Hydra, 2026.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/ashley-bickerton-hydor-onar-hydra-school-projects-hydra-2026-work-04.webp) Work by ****Ashley Bickerton**, installation view, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. Across the exhibition, **Jannis Kounellis** introduces one of its plainest and most unsettling images. A row of school chairs carries white bowls of water, a folded coat, a knife laid across a rim and living goldfish turning in confined circles. The work does not explain the knife. It leaves it beside a creature that is, for now, still swimming. ![Exhibition review of Joe Bradley, boxy wooden cart assembled from found parts with a blue light bulb fixed on top, Hydra, 2026.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/joe-bradley-hydor-onar-hydra-school-projects-hydra-2026-work-07.webp) ****Joe Bradley**, **Schrodinger’s Car*, 2026, installation view, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. **Joe Bradley** gives this unease another body. His *Schrodinger’s Car* sits somewhere between toy, wreckage and small funeral vehicle, assembled from spare parts and the leftover materials of city life. It feels almost comic at first, until its wheels and coffin-like box begin to suggest another kind of passage, less liquid than stranded, but still caught in transit. ![Reflective metal head sculpture on a black pedestal in front of tall black-and-white abstract paintings.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/HYDOR-ONAR_Water_of_Dreams__Pinelopi_Gerasimou-54.webp) Installation view with ****Daniel Silver**, **House of Water*, and works from ****Dimitrios Antonitsis**, **Shrouds*, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. ![Exhibition review of Daniel Silver, two crumpled reflective metal head sculptures on plinths against a blue curtain, Hydra, 2026.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/daniel-silver-hydor-onar-hydra-school-projects-hydra-2026-work-03.webp) ****Daniel Silver**, works from **House of Water*, installation view, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. **Daniel Silver** casts heads in crumpled, foil-like metal that reflects its surroundings rather than offering a stable face. They hold their shape only barely, closer to the moment before a portrait collapses than to a finished likeness. The works develop an idea of architecture that can no longer contain memory, feeling or psychological experience within a fixed structure. ![Green Tinos marble blocks arranged in a shallow black reflecting pool in the sunlit courtyard of Hydra School Projects.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/HYDOR-ONAR_Water_of_Dreams__Pinelopi_Gerasimou-4.webp) ****Styliane Philippou**, **Through a Glass Darkly*, 2026, installation view, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. ![Exhibition review of Despina Charitonidi, installation view, ceramic totem sculptures on white steps beside the school facade, Hydra, 2026.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/despina-charitonidi-hydor-onar-hydra-school-projects-hydra-2026-installation-02.webp) Installation view with works by ****Despina Charitonidi**, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. ![Four pale framed works with delicate stitched linear forms displayed in a row on a white wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/HYDOR-ONAR_Water_of_Dreams__Pinelopi_Gerasimou-69.webp) ****Ayumi Paul**, works from **Written in Water*, installation view, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. Elsewhere, **Ashley Bickerton** seals coral-like growths beneath green resin, while **Hussein Chalayan** allows garments to transform into stitched and water-marked forms. Their works approach the body and the natural world as unstable systems shaped by movement, pressure and human interference. ![Seven tall abstract works from Dimitrios Antonitsis’s Shrouds series, marked with black, grey and muted gold gestures, installed in a row on a white gallery wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/dimitrios-antonitsis-curator-artist.webp) ****Dimitrios Antonitsis**, works from **Shrouds*, 2025, installation view, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. ![Exhibition review of Despina Charitonidi, close-up detail showing barnacled ceramic texture with rust stains and water droplets.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/despina-charitonidi-hydor-onar-hydra-school-projects-hydra-2026-detail-01.webp) ****Dimitrios Antonitsis** Detail **Shrouds*, 2025, installation view, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. [**Brice Marden**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/brice-marden-greece-hydra-island/) enters more quietly, but with particular force on Hydra, where his lines and fields of colour remain inseparable from the island’s light, rhythms and repeated returns. **Jannis Kounellis** brings another kind of gravity through a material language of wood, stone and found objects. Together, Marden and Kounellis provide the exhibition with its deepest conceptual undertow, not water simply as an image, but as a pressure acting upon abstraction, memory and touch. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/sculpture-works--hydra-school-projects.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/water-of-dreams--hydra-school-projects.webp) ****Daniel Silver**, works from **House of Water*, 2026, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. ![Exhibition review of Fokion Zissiadis, installation view, iceberg photograph on gallery wall beside sculpture fragments and hanging textile scales.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/fokion-zissiadis-hydor-onar-hydra-school-projects-hydra-2026-installation-03.webp) Classroom installation view, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. Other works pull the dream inward or outward. **Ayumi Paul** turns messages and dreams into stitched movement, **Fokion Zissiadis** brings remote geological terrains into the exhibition through photography, and **Dimitrios Antonitsis** carries water into the body through *Shrouds*, a series shaped by mourning, release and energetic change. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/hydor-onar--hydra-school-projects--2026.webp) ****Hussein Chalayan**, **Transformer Carcasses (Series 2)*, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. ![Exhibition review of Hussein Chalayan, close-up detail showing stitched fabric scales in blue, grey, and tan tones.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/hussein-chalayan-hydor-onar-hydra-school-projects-hydra-2026-detail-02.webp) ****Hussein Chalayan**, **Transformer Carcasses (Series 2)*, detail, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. None of this arrives as ecological message, exactly, though the urgency sits close to the surface. Charitonidi is explicit about it, industrial hardware pushing through ceramic in a piece about oceans crowded by human infrastructure. But the show's quieter argument is that reverie is not a luxury opposed to real problems. At a moment when water is mostly discussed as a resource to be measured and argued over, dreaming through it reads as a different kind of attention. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/hydor-onar--hydra-school-projects-greece_Water_of_Dreams_@Pinelopi_Gerasimou-29.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/hydra-school-projects--exhibition--hydra.webp) ****Despina Charitonidi**, ceramic works, **Hydor/Onar (Water of Dreams)*, Hydra School Projects, 2026\. Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou. Courtesy Hydra School Projects. By the time the light drops low enough to turn the black reflecting pool gold, the marble in the courtyard has stopped looking like stone at all. It looks like something caught mid thaw, holding a shape it may not keep past the season. *Lithos* asked what survives. *Hydor/Onar* asks what happens to memory once it stops resisting the current and starts moving with it instead. [**Hydra School Projects on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/hydraschoolprojects/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About Catapult Contemporary - Art Platform Submission** This is a exhibition review published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond. [catapult.art](https://www.catapult-platform.art/) Want to be featured? 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