ΝΟΣΤΟΙ | Homecomings: Stories of the Ionian Island Diaspora in Queensland
RD Milns Antiquities Museum, Level 2, Michie Building (9), UQ St Lucia
Chrys Zantis’s practice is grounded in community, memory, and the material traces of history. Working across photography, textiles, and installation, she explores how stories are carried through bodies, objects, and rituals, and how ancient narratives continue to shape contemporary lives. Chrys was a community curator for Nostoi: Stories of the Ionian Islands Diaspora in Queensland at the Antiquities Museum, University of Queensland. The exhibition brought together ancient artefacts, oral histories, and contemporary voices to explore migration, myth, love, home, and belonging. Her photographic works from the Ionian Islands in the 1970s anchored the exhibition in lived experience, reflecting the landscapes and traditions migrants carried with them in memory.
This collaborative curatorial work extends my long-standing engagement with community-based art practices and is now informing her current body of work, Fluid Folds, which explores transformation, memory, and the body through water, textiles, and myth.
https://news.uq.edu.au/2025-12-greek-island-culture-shines-ionian-diaspora-exhibition