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

 

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 GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS


Upcoming

It used to be about love (solo show) curated by Ioanna Gerakidi, 17 Jan - 21 Feb 2025, Cypher, Athens, GR

Silent Night, (screening) curated by Panos Fourtoulakis - guest curator at 3137, 19 December, 10pm, Vatsaxi Str., Athens, GR

2024

Trifles & Troupes, curated by Ioanna Gerakidi, Blender Gallery, Athens, GR

Circa Prize 2024, (screenings) at Piccadilly Lights screen, Piccadilly Circus, London, UK, & Berlin Limes Kurfürstendamm screen, Berlin, GER, & EssilorLuxottica screen in Cadorna Square, Milan, IT

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

Conditions Film and Video Retrospective, (screening) curated by Matthew Noel-Tod, ICA Cinema 1, ICA, London, UK

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

Queering Communities of Care, digital exhibition hosted by the Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

Ask Self-Doll 3, curated by Akis Kokkinos, Benjamin Dardy & Lenette Lua, Gasworks online program, Gasworks, 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




PRESS


Circa | 2024

Daily Lazy | 2024

Artworks | 2023

Gasworks | 2021

Open Space Contemporary | 2021

HOAX publication | 2020

Traverse Catalogue | 2020

6x6 project | 2019




CONTACT


[email protected]