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Etel Adnan, Parmi les tilleuls, 2021, ceramic, 163,7 x 208,4 cm Etel Adnan is a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and essayist known for her richly layered practice across writing and visual art. The work evokes a landscape that feels immediately familiar—one that could belong anywhere along the Mediterranean, carrying with it layers of scent, memory, and lived experience. It is a place remembered as much as perceived. In dialogue with the Biennale’s theme, Where the Day Starts, the work suggests that beginnings are collective and sensory. Formed in ceramic, a medium shaped by time and transformation, Adnan’s landscape does not point to a single origin, but to a continuum of presence. Here, the day begins in memory, in smell, in the quiet intimacy between the viewer and a landscape that feels, somehow, like home. The artwork is currently on view at Our Lady of the Castle. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong. Supported by Brown University. Curated by: Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos Loukia Thomopoulou Anissa Touati ©️ Constantinos Caravatellis (photo 1,2,3) ©️ Courtesy Galerie Lelong (photo 4,5) #BCKeramics #BCK2026 #Rhodes