Even if you're thinking of trips you can't do, maybe trips you don't want to do, Alexis Akrithakis's work is what allows you to think both twice. He often talks about life and love, about desire and trauma, as if talking about paradise and hell. We have been told stories with language, stories through persistent little painting gestures (the famous "tsiki tsiki"), stories through an iconography that often brings forth suitcases, boats or anything like a toy. In the work of the MOMus collection, the plane flies into a red evening sky, in which the Big Bear glows with neon light, and awakens memories different for each one. [Alexis Akrithakis, Airplane, 1982, plastic color, wood, neon, Donation of Alexander Iolas to Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, MOMus - Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art Collections]