{"id":15894,"date":"2026-08-18T15:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esmeralda.local\/projects\/ik-ho-rus\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:49:13","slug":"ik-ho-rus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/fr\/projects\/ik-ho-rus\/","title":{"rendered":"ik-HO-rus"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15894\" class=\"elementor elementor-15894\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f424967 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f424967\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-add9b57 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"add9b57\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9b0c51d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9b0c51d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-225ac9f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"225ac9f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e8d732d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e8d732d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42c9c4e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"42c9c4e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-818fc7a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"818fc7a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d935f8 elementor-widget__width-initial ek-title elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-heading-2\" data-id=\"1d935f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;tp_anima_type&quot;:&quot;tp_fade_bottom&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"tp-heading-2.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"tp-about-3-title-box tp_fade_bottom\">\n\n\n        \n\n    <h1 class=\"tp-section-title-90 tp_text_invert tp-el-text\">ik-HO-rus<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9759593 ek-lead elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-animated-text\" data-id=\"9759593\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;tp_anima_type&quot;:&quot;tp_title_anim&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"tp-animated-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n<p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_title_anim lead-chapeau\" data-role=\"lead-chapeau\"><strong><em>ik-HO-rus<\/em><\/strong> brings Icarus and Horus into collision within an art installation that constructs a contemporary mythology of human ambition and ecological destruction in the age of the Anthropocene. Through sculpture and a spatial narrative in three acts, the project traces how the desire to exceed natural limits transforms ascent into extraction, and invention into the architecture of collapse.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da94913 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"da94913\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73a4a31 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"73a4a31\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-855c09b ek-label elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-animated-text\" data-id=\"855c09b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tp-animated-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n<p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget 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  <div class=\"pm-project-masonary-content\">\r\n                    <span class=\"pm-project-masonary-subtitle\">INSTALLATION VIEW<\/span>\r\n                    <p class=\"pm-project-masonary-title tp-el-title\"><a href=\"#\">Ik Ho Rus Installation View<\/a><\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div><div class=\"pm-project-masonary-item p-relative\" data-ek-r=\"0.765\">\r\n                <div class=\"fix\">\r\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1000\/765;width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_03.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_03-ek900.webp 900w, https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_03.webp 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Ik Ho Rus Installation View\">\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"pm-project-masonary-content\">\r\n                    <span class=\"pm-project-masonary-subtitle\">INSTALLATION VIEW<\/span>\r\n                    <p class=\"pm-project-masonary-title tp-el-title\"><a href=\"#\">Ik Ho Rus Installation View<\/a><\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div><div class=\"pm-project-masonary-item p-relative\" data-ek-r=\"0.765\">\r\n                <div class=\"fix\">\r\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1000\/765;width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-2_01.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-2_01-ek900.webp 900w, https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-2_01.webp 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Ik Ho Rus Act 2\">\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"pm-project-masonary-content\">\r\n                    <span class=\"pm-project-masonary-subtitle\">CHAPTER<\/span>\r\n                    <p class=\"pm-project-masonary-title tp-el-title\"><a href=\"\/works\/ik-ho-rus-act-ii\/\">Ik Ho Rus Act 2<\/a><\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div><\/div><div class=\"esm-col\"><div class=\"pm-project-masonary-item p-relative\" data-ek-r=\"0.578\">\r\n                <div class=\"fix\">\r\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1000\/578;width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_04.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_04-ek900.webp 900w, https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_04.webp 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Ik Ho Rus Installation View\">\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"pm-project-masonary-content\">\r\n                    <span class=\"pm-project-masonary-subtitle\">INSTALLATION VIEW<\/span>\r\n                    <p class=\"pm-project-masonary-title tp-el-title\"><a href=\"#\">Ik Ho Rus Installation View<\/a><\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div><div class=\"pm-project-masonary-item p-relative\" data-ek-r=\"1.348\">\r\n                <div class=\"fix\">\r\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1000\/1348;width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-3_01.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-3_01-ek900.webp 900w, https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-3_01.webp 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Ik Ho Rus Act 3\">\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"pm-project-masonary-content\">\r\n                    <span class=\"pm-project-masonary-subtitle\">CHAPTER<\/span>\r\n                    <p class=\"pm-project-masonary-title tp-el-title\"><a href=\"\/works\/ik-ho-rus-act-iii\/\">Ik Ho Rus Act 3<\/a><\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div><div class=\"pm-project-masonary-item p-relative\" data-ek-r=\"0.578\">\r\n                <div class=\"fix\">\r\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1000\/578;width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_01.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_01-ek900.webp 900w, https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_01.webp 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Ik Ho Rus Installation View\">\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"pm-project-masonary-content\">\r\n                    <span class=\"pm-project-masonary-subtitle\">INSTALLATION VIEW<\/span>\r\n                    <p class=\"pm-project-masonary-title tp-el-title\"><a href=\"#\">Ik Ho Rus Installation View<\/a><\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12e3b06 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"12e3b06\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-835c695 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"835c695\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" id=\"about\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31346f6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"31346f6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63203b1 elementor-widget__width-initial ek-h2 ek-sec-head elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-heading-2\" data-id=\"63203b1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;tp_anima_type&quot;:&quot;tp_fade_bottom&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"tp-heading-2.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"tp-about-3-title-box tp_fade_bottom\">\n\n\n        \n\n    <h2 class=\"tp-section-title-90 tp_text_invert tp-el-text\">About<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49bcbe2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"49bcbe2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5eabe1b ek-body elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-animated-text\" data-id=\"5eabe1b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;tp_anima_type&quot;:&quot;tp_fade_bottom&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"tp-animated-text.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n<div class=\"tp-animated-text-paragraphs\"><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\"><p><strong><em>ik-HO-rus<\/em><\/strong> stages the encounter between two mythological figures who could never have met within their inherited narratives. Icarus is a figure from Greek mythology who attempts to transcend the limits of the human condition. Horus is the falcon-headed figure from Egyptian mythology, for whom flight is neither invention nor conquest, but a state of being.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\">Their names fuse into a single hybrid title, producing a mythology that belongs fully to neither Greek nor Egyptian tradition. Rather than illustrating two ancient stories, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos displaces their protagonists and brings them into a new encounter shaped by contemporary anxieties surrounding progress, extraction and ecological collapse.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\">The installation unfolds as a spatial play in three acts. In Act I, Icarus cuts down the forest to construct wings and enter the celestial kingdom of Horus. Trees become timber, timber becomes technology, and technology becomes the instrument through which the mortal attempts to escape his condition. For Horus, flight belongs to being. For Icarus, it must be manufactured, possessed and conquered.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\">In Act II, Horus descends and removes the wings to interrupt the destruction. Icarus does not understand the gesture as a warning. He returns to the remaining forest, cuts down the trees and uses them to build a ladder. Deprived of one instrument of ascent, he invents another.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\">In Act III, Horus directs the force of the sun towards the ladder. A rung breaks beneath Icarus, and the structure intended to elevate him becomes the architecture of his fall. The three acts do not appear consecutively within the exhibition. Forest, wings, ladder, sun and sea coexist as simultaneous scenes. The warning remains visible beside the refusal to understand it; the landscape is being destroyed while the fall has already occurred.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\">In this retelling, Icarus does not fall simply because he flies too close to the sun. His fall begins much earlier, when everything surrounding him becomes a resource for his ascent. Each limit becomes a problem to solve, each obstacle produces a new technology, and every apparent solution intensifies the destruction from which it emerged.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\">A reduced, almost childlike visual vocabulary gives the fable its immediate legibility. A blue sea, a golden sun, wooden wings, a ladder, felled trees and the watchful figure of Horus construct an artificial theatrical landscape. Its simplicity does not soften the violence of the narrative; it makes its logic more direct. The visitor moves freely between these moments, entering the story through its beginning, its conclusion or a partial view. Walking becomes a form of reading, while narrative ceases to be a sequence and becomes a landscape.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:1.5em;\">Humour and absurdity allow <strong><em>ik-HO-rus<\/em><\/strong> to approach the Anthropocene without reducing the work to an ecological lesson. Icarus is capable of inventing endlessly, but incapable of questioning the desire that drives invention itself. The work does not suggest that Icarus falls because he reaches too high. He falls because his ascent depends upon the repeated destruction of everything beneath him.<\/p><p data-stagger=\"0.08\" data-speed=\"1\" data-lag=\".2\" class=\" liko-animated-text-widget tp-el-animation-heading tp-section-title-span-padding tp_fade_bottom tp-animated-text-paragraph\">The forest becomes wings.<br \/>The remaining trees become a ladder.<br \/>The ladder becomes the instrument of the fall.<br \/>By the time Icarus approaches the sun, the tragedy has already taken place.<\/p><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e933e16 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e933e16\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" id=\"chapters\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9427104 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9427104\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ff48d4 elementor-widget__width-initial ek-h2 ek-sec-head elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-heading-2\" data-id=\"7ff48d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;tp_anima_type&quot;:&quot;tp_fade_bottom&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"tp-heading-2.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"tp-about-3-title-box tp_fade_bottom\">\n\n\n        \n\n    <h2 class=\"tp-section-title-90 tp_text_invert tp-el-text\">Chapters<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a3a75cf e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a3a75cf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d95b359 ek-chapters elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-award\" data-id=\"d95b359\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tp-award.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n    \n<div class=\"row\">\n    <div class=\"col-xl-4 col-lg-4 col-md-12\">\n        <div class=\"tp-award-list-thumb-wrap p-relative\">\n            <div id=\"tp-award-thumb\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-xl-8 col-lg-8 col-md-12\">\n        <div class=\"tp-award-list-wrap\">\n                        <div class=\"tp-award-list-item tp-el-section tp-el-border d-flex align-items-center justify-content-between active tp_fade_bottom\" rel=\"tp-award-list-thumb-1\" data-hover-image=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/home\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_04.webp\"><a class=\"tp-award-list-link\" href=\"\/works\/ik-ho-rus-act-i\/\" aria-label=\"ik-HO-rus Act I\"><\/a>\n                <div class=\"tp-award-list-content-left d-flex align-items-center\">\n                                                            <p class=\"tp-el-title\">ik-HO-rus Act I<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"tp-award-list-content-right\">\n                    <span class=\"tp-el-date\">2023<\/span>\n                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"tp-award-list-item tp-el-section tp-el-border d-flex align-items-center justify-content-between active tp_fade_bottom\" rel=\"tp-award-list-thumb-2\" data-hover-image=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/home\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_04.webp\"><a class=\"tp-award-list-link\" href=\"\/works\/ik-ho-rus-act-ii\/\" aria-label=\"ik-HO-rus Act II\"><\/a>\n                <div class=\"tp-award-list-content-left d-flex align-items-center\">\n                                                            <p class=\"tp-el-title\">ik-HO-rus Act II<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"tp-award-list-content-right\">\n                    <span class=\"tp-el-date\">2023<\/span>\n                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"tp-award-list-item tp-el-section tp-el-border d-flex align-items-center justify-content-between active tp_fade_bottom\" rel=\"tp-award-list-thumb-3\" data-hover-image=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/home\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-installation-view_04.webp\"><a class=\"tp-award-list-link\" href=\"\/works\/ik-ho-rus-act-iii\/\" aria-label=\"ik-HO-rus Act III\"><\/a>\n                <div class=\"tp-award-list-content-left d-flex align-items-center\">\n                                                            <p class=\"tp-el-title\">ik-HO-rus Act III<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"tp-award-list-content-right\">\n                    <span class=\"tp-el-date\">2023<\/span>\n                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-889c883 e-con-full ek-gallery-wrap e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"889c883\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e33732 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6e33732\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07e1c95 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"07e1c95\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26aa6b6 ek-gallery-rest elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-portfolio-card\" data-id=\"26aa6b6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tp-portfolio-card.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><div class=\"esm-project-gallery-masonry esm-cols\"><div class=\"esm-col\"><div class=\"pm-project-masonary-item p-relative\" data-ek-r=\"1.348\">\r\n                <div class=\"fix\">\r\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1000\/1348;width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-2_03.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-2_03-ek900.webp 900w, https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-2_03.webp 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Ik Ho Rus Act 2\">\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"pm-project-masonary-content\">\r\n                    <span class=\"pm-project-masonary-subtitle\">CHAPTER<\/span>\r\n                    <p class=\"pm-project-masonary-title tp-el-title\"><a href=\"\/works\/ik-ho-rus-act-ii\/\">Ik Ho Rus Act 2<\/a><\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div><div class=\"pm-project-masonary-item p-relative\" data-ek-r=\"1.348\">\r\n                <div class=\"fix\">\r\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1000\/1348;width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-3_02.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-3_02-ek900.webp 900w, https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-3_02.webp 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Ik Ho Rus Act 3\">\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"pm-project-masonary-content\">\r\n                    <span class=\"pm-project-masonary-subtitle\">CHAPTER<\/span>\r\n                    <p class=\"pm-project-masonary-title tp-el-title\"><a href=\"\/works\/ik-ho-rus-act-iii\/\">Ik Ho Rus Act 3<\/a><\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div><\/div><div class=\"esm-col\"><div class=\"pm-project-masonary-item p-relative\" data-ek-r=\"1.348\">\r\n                <div class=\"fix\">\r\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1000\/1348;width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-1_03.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-1_03-ek900.webp 900w, https:\/\/esmeraldakosmatopoulos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/ikh\/ikh-ik-ho-rus-act-1_03.webp 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"Ik Ho Rus Act 1\">\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"pm-project-masonary-content\">\r\n                    <span class=\"pm-project-masonary-subtitle\">CHAPTER<\/span>\r\n                    <p class=\"pm-project-masonary-title tp-el-title\"><a href=\"\/works\/ik-ho-rus-act-i\/\">Ik Ho Rus Act 1<\/a><\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48dab8a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"48dab8a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b3eb870 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b3eb870\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" id=\"exhibitions\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-adb060c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"adb060c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f1b1c47 elementor-widget__width-initial ek-h2 ek-sec-head elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-heading-2\" data-id=\"f1b1c47\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;tp_anima_type&quot;:&quot;tp_fade_bottom&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"tp-heading-2.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"tp-about-3-title-box tp_fade_bottom\">\n\n\n        \n\n    <h2 class=\"tp-section-title-90 tp_text_invert tp-el-text\">Exhibitions<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-39dab11 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"39dab11\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f2779b0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f2779b0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-edf636c elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-award\" data-id=\"edf636c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tp-award.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\r\n        <div class=\"col-xl-4 col-lg-4 col-md-12\">\r\n            <div class=\"tp-award-list-thumb-wrap p-relative\">\r\n                <div id=\"tp-award-thumb\"><\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"col-xl-8 col-lg-8 col-md-12\">\r\n            <div class=\"tp-award-list-wrap\">\r\n                <div class=\"tp-award-list-item tp-el-section tp-el-border d-flex align-items-center justify-content-between active tp_fade_bottom\">\r\n            <div class=\"tp-award-list-content-left d-flex align-items-center\">\r\n                <p class=\"tp-el-title\">Art D&#039;\u00c9gypte, Cairo, EG<\/p>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"tp-award-list-content-right\">\r\n                <span class=\"tp-el-date\">2023<\/span>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b4cabc6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b4cabc6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" id=\"studio-notes\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0e03d85 elementor-widget__width-inherit ek-h2 ek-sec-head elementor-widget elementor-widget-tp-heading-2\" data-id=\"0e03d85\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;tp_anima_type&quot;:&quot;tp_fade_bottom&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"tp-heading-2.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"tp-about-3-title-box tp_fade_bottom\">\n\n\n        \n\n    <h2 class=\"tp-section-title-90 tp_text_invert tp-el-text\">Studio Notes<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef1aaf5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ef1aaf5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5173a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"c5173a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db2da59 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"db2da59\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5885b52 elementor-widget 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