Christos Pathiakis

opens with a reception, Saturday, January 17, 6-8pm

Christos Pathiakis’ first solo show at Northern-Southern is Erebos, January 17—February 15, 2026.

Bespoke optics, ritual ceramics, and a collection of color photographs of remote caves in Greece summon the dark places where our world touches others.

Erebos is an ancient god of darkness, the consort of Nyx, the night. Their son is the bright blue ether that circles the world with light. In the beginning, Erebos embraced the world as a dark mist sinking into the caverns of the earth. To bring night, Nyx raises Erebos’s mist in a blue cloak, obscuring the bright blue ether. At dawn, Nyx and Erebos’s daughter Hemera, the day, scatters the dark mist to reveal the blue ether again.

The ancient Greeks recognized two forms of darkness. The darkness of night—Nyx’s blue cloak— obscures a natural light. The darkness of Erebos is not a lack of light. It is of itself, dense and nestled in the deep earth.