The exhibition invites Greek and Cypriot artists, in an effort to explore the correlations between the rhetoric of resilience, ecology, urban planning, sustainability and social organization. The participating artists are invited to explore the ways in which artistic gesture can contribute to the understanding of resilience within a compassionate and consoling discourse that can – ultimately – reconcile the private with the collective. By opening a dialogue between artists and philosophers, this proposal seeks to emphasize the importance of a different understanding of the role of resilience (as a concept, rhetoric and process) in aesthetic and artistic experience.Danae Stratou participates with the sculpture Javelin – prototype, 1987.