# Jordan Gogos: Parádeisos

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Jordan Gogos: Parádeisos

Πάρε αποφάσεις με тпу карбі και χρησιμοποίησε το μυαλό σου για να τις υλοποιήσεις / Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work

— a fortune slip found inside a cookie in Athens

Australian artist and fashion designer Jordan Gogos transforms ephemera into visions of paradise. Using textiles as one medium among many, his practice is open-ended and improvisational, collaging colour and texture, folk traditions with queer sensibilities, domestic craft with pop exuberance, to reimagine oddments as an opportunity for invention. Rooted in diaspora and family memory, his work acknowledges the past as an active presence, conscious that all things will one day be ancient.

'Parádeisos' is framed around the Greek vision of a cultivated paradise, at once real and imagined, connecting the celestial and terrestrial. In antiquity, parádeisos described enclosed gardens where architecture, art, and nature intertwined. Here, it becomes a metaphor for the deeply personal and joyfully collective worlds Gogos creates with textiles, photography, sculpture and live modelling.

'Parádeisos' marks Gogos’s first institutional solo exhibition and his most ambitious presentation to date. It unfolds as a sprawling environment where art and fashion converge, bringing together his expansive textile and photographic projects alongside wearable works by his acclaimed label Iordanes Spyridon Gogos. This exhibition also features ambitious new works and materials developed in collaboration with the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Fujifilm, Designer Rugs, Pallion, and UNSW Art & Design.

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Curated by José Da Silva and Emily Roebuck

When

29 May – 16 August 2026

Where

Address

Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd Paddington NSW 2021

Hours

Wed to Fri 10am–5pm; Sat to Sun 12–5pm

Phone

+61 2 8936 0888

**Banner Image:** Jordan Gogos, *Parasail Series*, 2024. Courtesy of the artist, Gadigal Nura/ Sydney