“I have a DNA which is very similar to the mules of the island,” says world-renowned artist-curator Dimitris Antonitsis, half-smiling, as he leads me through the classroom-turned-gallery of the Hydra School Projects’ 2025 exhibition, Lithos Lethe – Stone Versus Oblivion.

It’s a typically ‘Antonitsian’ metaphor: stoic, tongue-in-cheek, and pointed. For 26 years, he’s been ferrying art, ideas, and vision up Hydra’s steep mule tracks, building an annual project that defies categorization – part art exhibition, part thought-provoking platform, part spiritual offering to the island he loves.

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