About



I am a visual artist from Greece based in between London & Athens. Working across moving image, installation, performance, painting, drawing and text, and in dialogue with misinterpreted psychoanalytic and philosophic concepts, I invent non-linear storytelling narratives to interrogate one’s relationship to the Other. I am interested in the multiple forms this Other can take, such as of language, society, the law, one’s own self, or simply of another. Through examining these relationships, I explore themes around integration, queer identities and power systems.

 

My work aims to access a pre-oral knowledge residing between conscious and unconscious realms, often depicting the clash between reality and fantasy. At the core of this clash lies language, which either manipulates or gets manipulated in its attempt to symbolize non-articulated perceptions and desires. The distorted use of language in my work necessitates the invisible disassembling and reassembling of meaning. As far as feminism opens up space for a different kind of knowing, I see this process as feminist. Although my research is informed by feminist theory, its influence on my work is structural, rather than a topic of concern. I see femininity as an existential condition rooted in all human beings through which we can access chaotic worlds that escape the order of language.



EDUCATION / RESIDENCIES


  • Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles, 2023
  • Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS, Athens, 2021
  • Resident Artist at Conditions Studio Programme, London, 2020
  • MA Royal College of Art, Contemporary Art Practice, London, 2019
  • BA Fine Arts and Design, Athens University of Applied Sciences, Athens, 2015



EXHIBITIONS - SHOWS



  • Circa Prize 2024, Piccadilly Circus, London - Berlin - Milan, 2024 (September 25, Screening) Vote for me here
  • Metal and the Flesh, curated by Aaron Ratajczyk, Horse and Pony, Berlin, September 2024
  • Touching Faultlines, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos & Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Gortynas Ancient Theatre, Crete, August 2024
  • Conditions Film and Video Retrospective, curated by Matthew Noel-Tod, ICA Cinema 1, ICA, London, 2024 (August 7, Screening) Book tickets here
  • East Beat, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou & The Callas, Velvet Gardens, Thermissi, 2024
  • Shifting, curated by Florent Frizet, One Minute Space, Athens, 2024
  • Outraged By Pleasure, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, Nobel building, Athens, 2023
  • From the Earth to Thermissi, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou & The Callas, Velvet Gardens, Thermissi, 2023
  • This and That, curated by Julien Vella, School of Philo, Verfeil-sur-Seye, 2022
  • Mr. Cook, curated by Huma Kabacki, Writing Space Resident Writer, Open Space, London, 2021 
  • Conditions, curated by Matthew Noel-Tod, Whitgift Centre, London, 2021
  • Queering Communities of Care, online exhibition hosted by Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2021
  • Ask Self-Doll 3, curated by Akis Kokkinos, Benjamin Dardy & Lenette Lua, Gasworks, London, 2021
  • No-body's room, curated by The Room Projects & LUX London, Paris, 2021
  • A Liar's Journal, curated by Hoax Publication, Digital Exhibition, London, 2020
  • I Wanna Show You How, curated by Loose Threads, Digital Exhibition, London, 2020
  • Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, Digital Exhibition, Thessaloniki, 2020
  • Queer Art(ists) Now, (part of And What? Queer Arts Festival),Rose Lipman Building, London, 2020
  • 23rd International Encounters Traverse, Le Cratere Cinema & Institute of Fine Arts, Toulouse, 2020
  • The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, 2020
  • Athens Festival of Queer Performance, FAC Research, Athens, 2019
  • Dispatch Feminist Moving Image, Late at Tate, Tate St Ives, UK, 2019
  • Disorder Live Art Festival, curated by Disorder Live Art Collective, Wolverhampton, 2019
  • Scurgriness Lecture Series, CAP HUB, Royal College of Art, London, 2019
  • Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2019
  • Togetherness, curated by Jordan Baseman, Assembly Point, London, 2019
  • Disorders, curated by Disorder Live Art Collective, Studio 9294, London, 2019
  • Nothing Really Mattress, invited by Panicattack Duo, South London Gallery, London, 2019
  • Femme, curated by Kat Hudson, VFD and Rio Cinema Dalston, London, 2018
  • 5' of Your Time, curated by Nigel Rolfe, Testbed1, London, 2018
  • Revolve Performance Art Days Festival, organised by Uppsala Konst Museum, Sweden, 2018
  • Body Electric, curated by Despoina Zacharopoulou, Dyson Gallery, London, 2017
  • Audiovisual Arts Festival, curated by AIAF, Athens Megaron, Athens, 2017
  • Lush Art in Austere Times, Isnotgallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2017
  • Heatwave, curated by 3137, Pantheon Building, Athens, 2016




FILM AND ANIMATION FESTIVALS


  • Tricky Women Animation Festival 2020 (Vienna)
  • Women in Balkan Animation, curated by Mina Sablic, 14th Zabroffka ISFF, Białystok, 2019 (Poland)
  • 70 Years of Greek Animation, curated by ASIFA HELLAS, ASFA, 2016 (Athens)
  • 12th Athens Digital Arts Festival 2016 (Greece)
  • 1st Hellas Filmbox Berlin Festival 2016 (Berlin)
  • Best Greek Animated films, curated by AIAF, Institut Français d'Athènes 2015 (Athens)
  • 21th Athens International Film Festival 2015 (Greece)
  • 38th Patra Greek Short Film Festival 2015 (Greece)
  • 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2015 (Greece)
  • 8th Animasyros International Animation Festival 2015 (Greece)
  • 13th Monstra International Animation Festival 2014 (Portugal)
  • 4th Be There International Animation Festival 2013 (Greece)
  • 4th Anibar International Animation Festival 2013 (Kosovo)
  • 19th Athens International FILM Festival 2013 (Greece)
  • 10th Naoussa International Film Festival 2013 (Greece)
  • 10 European Animated Film Festival Balkanima 2013 (Serbia)
  • 10th Animateka International Animation Festival 2013 (Slovenia)
  • 5th Reanimania International Animation Festival 2013 (Armenia)
  • 2nd Butiful International Film Festival 2013 (England)
  • 9th World Festival of Animated Film - Varna 2013 (Bulgary)
  • 37th Cinanima International Animation Festival 2013 (Portugal)
  • 15th Melbourne International Animation Festival 2013 (Australia)
  • 6th Animasyros International Animation Festival 2013 (Greece)




AWARDS - SCHOLARSHIPS


  • Circa Prize Finalist 2024
  • Artworks Fellowship Program 2021
  • CEZ Creative Practitioners Fund 2020
  • Leventis Foundation scholar 2018-2019
  • Leventis Foundation scholar 2017-2018




PRESS


Circa | 2024

Artworks | 2023

Gasworks | 2021

Open Space Contemporary | 2021

Traverse Catalogue | 2020

6x6 project | 2019




CONTACT


[email protected]