About
I am a visual artist from Greece based in between London and Athens. Working across painting, drawing, text, sound, moving image, installation and performance, and in dialogue with misinterpreted psychoanalytic and philosophic concepts, I invent non-linear 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, the (m)other. Through examining these relationships, I explore themes around integration, queer identities and power systems.
Personal and found archival material, sometimes imaginary (i.e. dreams, phantasies, phobias) and sometimes not (i.e. recordings, writings, photographs, snapshots), are being used as a starting point for my work. Fragments of these archives are getting cut, mixed, manipulated and confronted to raw, gestural and improvisatory procedures. In this way the signifiers lose their signified and they get reduced to being the notes from which a new body of meanings is being composed.
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
2019 MA Royal College of Art, Contemporary Art Practice, London, UK
2015 BA Fine Arts and Design, Athens University of Applied Sciences, Athens, GR
AWARDS - SCHOLARSHIPS
2024 Circa Prize Finalist
2021 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS
2020 CEZ Creative Practitioners Fund
2018-2019 Leventis Foundation scholar
2017-2018 Leventis Foundation scholar
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2025
Telepathy and the unseen, curated by the Tagli, the Noho Galleries, London, UK
Deserts of Love, curated by Amalia Vekri, Haus N Athen, Athens, GR
Aaaaa,aa (solo show) curated by Ioanna Gerakidi, Cypher, Athens, GR
2024
Silent Night, (screening) curated by Panos Fourtoulakis, organised by 3137, Vatsaxi Str., Athens, GR
Trifles & Troupes, curated by Ioanna Gerakidi, Blender Gallery, Athens, GR
Metal and the Flesh, curated by Aaron Ratajczyk, Horse and Pony, Berlin, DE
Touching Faultlines, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos & Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Gortynas Ancient Theatre, Crete, GR
East Beat, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou & The Callas, Velvet Gardens, Thermissi, GR
Shifting, curated by Florent Frizet, One Minute Space, Athens, GR
2023
Outraged By Pleasure, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, Nobel building, Athens, GR
From the Earth to Thermissi, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou & The Callas, Velvet Gardens, Thermissi, GR
2022
This and That, curated by Julien Vella, School of Philo, Verfeil-sur-Seye, FR
2021
Conditions, curated by Matthew Noel-Tod, Whitgift Centre, London, UK
No-body's room, (screening) curated by The Room Projects & LUX London, Paris, FR
2020
A Liar's Journal, curated by Hoax Publication, digital exhibition, London, UK
I Wanna Show You How, curated by Loose Threads, digital exhibition, London, UK
Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, digital exhibition, Thessaloniki, GR
Queer Art(ists) Now, part of And What? Queer Arts Festival, Rose Lipman Building, London, UK
23rd International Encounters Traverse, Le Cratere Cinema & Institute of Fine Arts, Toulouse, FR
The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, (screening), Paris, FR
2019
Athens Festival of Queer Performance, FAC Research, Athens, GR
Dispatch Feminist Moving Image, (screening) Late at Tate, Tate St Ives, UK
Disorder Live Art Festival, curated by Disorder Live Art Collective, Wolverhampton, UK
Scurgriness Lecture Series, CAP HUB, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Togetherness, curated by Jordan Baseman, Assembly Point, London, UK
Disorders, curated by Disorder Live Art Collective, Studio 9294, London, UK
Nothing Really Mattress, invited by Panicattack Duo, South London Gallery, London, UK
2018
Femme, (screening) curated by Kat Hudson, VFD and Rio Cinema Dalston, London, UK
5' of Your Time, curated by Nigel Rolfe, Testbed1, London, UK
Revolve Performance Art Days Festival, organised by Uppsala Art Museum, SE
2017
Body Electric, curated by Despoina Zacharopoulou, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
Audiovisual Arts Festival, curated by AIAF, Athens Megaron, Athens, GR
FILM AND ANIMATION FESTIVALS
2020
Tricky Women Animation Festival, Vienna, AU
2019
Women in Balkan Animation, curated by Mina Sablic, 14th Zabroffka ISFF, Białystok, POL
2016
70 Years of Greek Animation, curated by ASIFA HELLAS, ASFA, Athens, GR
12th Athens Digital Arts Festival, GR
1st Hellas Filmbox Berlin Festival, DE
2015
Best Greek Animated films, curated by AIAF, Institut Français d'Athènes, GR
21th Athens International Film Festival, GR
38th Patra Greek Short Film Festival, GR
56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, GR
8th Animasyros International Animation Festival, GR
2014
13th Monstra International Animation Festival, PORT
2013
4th Be There International Animation Festival, GR
4th Anibar International Animation Festival, XK
19th Athens International FILM Festival, GR
10th Naoussa International Film Festival, GR
10 European Animated Film Festival Balkanima, SRB
10th Animateka International Animation Festival, SL
5th Reanimania International Animation Festival, ARM
2nd Butiful International Film Festival, UK
9th World Festival of Animated Film - Varna, BUL
37th Cinanima International Animation Festival, PORT
15th Melbourne International Animation Festival, AU
6th Animasyros International Animation Festival, GR
RESIDENCIES
2023 Resident Artist at Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles, US
2020 Resident Artist at Conditions Studio Programme, London, UK
LINKS
Circa | 2024
Daily Lazy | 2024
Kuba Paris | 2024
Artworks Publication | 2024
Gasworks | 2021
Open Space Contemporary | 2021
HOAX publication | 2020
Traverse Catalogue | 2020
6x6 project | 2019
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