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Setting up in the palace a great histon, she wove
a fine and very wide (histon)

– Odyssey ii 94–95

Dio Horia Gallery is pleased to present Iliodora Margellos’ ‘Histonas (Room of Webs)’, a solo project showcasing a total of thirteen new works by the Greek-Swiss artist, on view at Dio Horia Acropolis Annex, April 06 – May 06, 2023.

While in Classical Greece, women used to spend most of the day in the gynaikon, the women’s quarters of the house located on an upper floor, where mothers raised their children and engaged in spinning thread and weaving, Iliodora Margellos revisits history and places …