"The exhibition was an act of inhabiting, of layering presence upon place: a home infused with a universe of ideas, encounters, and artistic life. It was both residence and gathering, studio and stage, workshop and dialogue—a space where creation and conversation met. The show aimed to embed the new home with the universe he envisioned—one that was at once a residence, a gathering place for conversation, exchange, and workshops, and a studio for artists seeking a space to work.

Drawing from the 19th-century salon as a site of intellectual exchange and poetry, and the 20th-century studio as a locus of solitary artistic creation and experimentation, Arndt Family Residence and Private Art Space embraced a contemporary hybrid model: a space where making and gathering intersected.

Homecoming staged a poetic space, in the spirit of Elytis, who once lived there, inhabited by artworks and gestures that navigated the thresholds between intimacy and publicity, word and image, past and future. Participating artists explored themes such as the domestic as a site, everyday rituals, and the translation of poetic form into artistic practice." —Polina Kosmadaki