Bernier/Eliades Gallery is pleased to host Tindara Spartà’s first exhibition in Athens, titled MAD HOUSE. The opening will take place on Thursday, 23 April 2026, from 18:00 to 21:00, in the presence of the artist. Spartà’s artistic practice combines painting, installation, sculpture, and staged objects. Through her work, she often explores the relationship between everyday objects and their environment, as well as the tensions that arise from displaced and disoriented domestic scenes, where familiar imagery becomes symbols charged with subtle humor and quiet unease.
In MAD HOUSE, the artist presents a new series of paintings and sculptures that investigate the concept of the house. The familiar interior becomes a territory to explore, dense and strange, as unknown as a landscape you have never crossed. Tiles, pipes, doors, corners, and other functional elements of the building envelope, usually invisible to the viewer, become orifices, vital openings of a living house. Their repetitive patterns expand, forming a grid that wraps the space. Motif and structure hold the domestic imagery together, giving it coherence and making it legible.
Recurring dogs run throughout the exhibition, not as a picturesque subject but as a stance. For Spartà, dogs embody a way of inhabiting space; settling into it fully and being present without seeking escape. They inhabit our homes, withdrawn from the disturbances of the world, and live in a state of waiting, in yards, kitchens, and hallways, in a stretched present. Dogs see the door, yet their concern is only for the one who opens it, suggesting a way of perceiving that is attentive, patient, and aware. They observe us and make the effort to enter our world, even when it is unstable. As Spartà states: “What touches me deeply is this asymmetry of recognition. Dogs’ devotion, their commitment in the midst of our species; we do not grasp the extent of what they offer us. There is no language that allows me to make them feel that I see what they do, that I feel it.”
Tindara Spartà (b. 1994, France) lives and works in Dijon, France. She received her MFA (2018) and BA (2015) from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Dijon. She has exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including recently at Saint-Nazaire Museum (France, 2024).