The historical textile factory "Klataloudas Petaloudas-Mouzakis" was founded by Eleftherios Mouzakis in 1944 and operates continuously until today. The exhibition takes place in various buildings of the factory and hopes to highlight its history, which is inextricably linked to the industrial history of Greece.  

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The industrial environment with its intense retro-futuristic character inspires the participating artists and puts the visitors in a condition where the real and the imaginary interact and interact.

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Taking into account the geographical stigma of the wider area of the factory premises, which is identified with the axis of the ancient procession of the Eleusinian Mysteries on the Sacred Way, the exhibition brings the art-loving public close to meanings of inner exploration, existential quests and emotional uplift.

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The physical existence of yarn as a raw material and as a derivative/product in countless forms, is a reference of a tradition and a national identity on multiple levels. It forms and signifies geographical identifications on a physical and meta-physical level, while also acting as a springboard for emotional associations. These elements concern visual artists and constitute one of the main denominators of their repertoire.

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The conceptual axis involves a poetic and allegorical metaphorical metaphor of the butterfly effect, which lends its name to the title of the exhibition. It connotes the fact that an infinitesimal change in the flow of events leads, after the passage of time, to a development of history dramatically different from the one that would have taken place if the change had not occurred.

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The viewer is transported into a world where architecture, machines, spinning machines and multimedia artworks coexist harmoniously and develop an active dialogue with space-time, while weaving a link between Art and Business. Having the opportunity to be in these spaces, the audience will reflect, among other things, on the prospect of reindustrialization and the strengthening of domestic production and the collective benefit that could result from this development.

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The human resources, the families that worked in this place are also an important but symbolic parameter that undoubtedly establishes a further condition for exploring and celebrating the role of industry.

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Curator Kostas Prapoglou invites forty-one contemporary artists to present works that are site-specific and context-responsive, using their visual, multimedia vocabulary to create site-specific installations, videos, sculptures, soundscapes and paintings.

Storage spaces, machine rooms, corridors and passages form a stream of consciousness and emotional pathway.