CAN GALLERY PRESENTS: CLOCKS OF THE TIDES BY VALINIA SVORONOU

In Clocks of the Tides, Svoronou pulls from forgotten books, fading chimeras, and the imaginary of everyday life exploring how memory shifts over time — what fades, what resurfaces, and what we carry with us across generations? 

Through drawings, animation, and ceramics, she builds a world where personal and collective histories mix with myth, migration, and everyday ritual. Nothing is fixed. Time moves like the tide — pulling stories in, then letting them go..

Her language is delicate but deliberate. Bows, lace, and fragments of clay become tools to speak about identity, displacement, and the quiet power of things often overlooked. Svoronou doesn’t try to preserve the past — she transforms it by letting it breathe in the present.