Multimedia exhibition raises awareness on fragility of Aoos River

The fragility of the Aoos/Vjosa River, which crosses the border between Greece and Albania and represents one of Europe's few remaining free-flowing waterways, has inspired a multimedia exhibition that seeks to explore the confluence of history, culture, economy, and environmental sustainability.

Photographer Penelope Thomaidi and documentary filmmaker Natasha Blatsiou have been invited by the Vovousa Festival to create a series of works integrating visual and audio elements. Through landscape and portrait photographs, cyanotype prints of plants, oral narratives, and soundscapes, the exhibition, which is curated by Vangelis Ioakimidis, aims to immerse viewers in the ecological diversity and multicultural identity of the area, encompassing the Aoos and its tributaries, the Sarantaporos and Voidomatis.

The show, which is supported by the Athens-based Mediterranean...