For the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Andreas Angelidakis presents Escape Room, a solo presentation of new works curated by George Bekirakis. Transforming the Greek Pavilion into a present-day Platonic Cave, he reimagines Plato’s seminal text as an immersive, inhabitable environment, situated within the current era of post-truth and rising nationalist populism. In Angelidakis’s hands, the Platonic allegory becomes a malleable instrument for probing the present, in which the world of images is saturated with digital illusions and cultural replicas. Shifting the focus to the history of the Greek Pavilion itself, the installation assembles elements presented as contested, constructed truths, illuminating both the complex nature of historical knowledge and its entanglement with nationalism and propaganda.