Suspended within the narrow, curved interior of a wind-worn mill in the Chora of Astypalaia, a single paper artwork stretches six meters long, a fragile monument of cuts, shadows, and silence. It bears the phrase, that which is missing defines that which remains, translated from the Greek αυτό που λείπει ορίζει αυτό που μένει by Gerasimos Evangelatos, a line which distills years of Stratis Tavlaridis’ practice into a single breath. Within it, the exhibition’s title — Void — finds quiet meaning: not as absence, but as space held open, as breath and possibility. A second, smaller work, bearing the words Σ’αγαπώ (I love you), hangs above it, like a handkerchief waving goodbye. For over a decade, Tavlaridis has worked almost exclusively with 30-gram handmade paper from Nepal. Using a surgical scalpel, he shapes intricate compositions that balance precision with fragility. His delicate worlds emerge through the removal of matter. These paper cuttings evoke both the obsessive and the ephemeral; traces, spirals, gaps, and ghosts. In this new solo exhibition, his first on the island of Astypalaia, his work appears within a landscape that has, inadvertently threaded itself into his thinking.Having returned to the island over many summers, drawn again and again by its haunting allure, he now returns with an offering.