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 belonging/ not belonging, queer identities and power systems.
My work aims to access a pre-oral knowledge that meanders in between the conscious and the unconscious mind, often depicting the conflict between reality and fantasy. At the core of the conflict between these two worlds 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
- Outraged By Pleasure, curated by Nadja Argiropoulou, Nobel building, Athens, 2023
- From the Earth to Thermissi, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou & The Callas, Velvet Gardens, Thermissi, 2023
- This and That, School of Philo, curated by Julien Vella, Verfeil-sur-Seye, 2022
- Mr. Cook, curated by Huma Kabacki, Writing Space Resident Writer, Open Space, London, 2021
- Conditions, curated by Matthew Noel-Tod, Unit No.48 & No.66, Whitgift Centre, London, 2021
- Visualising Care, curated by the Duke Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University, NC, 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
- Hoax Publication, curated by Lulu Nunn, 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, 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
- Women in Balkan Animation, curated by Mina Sablic, 14th Zabroffka International Short Film Festival, Białystok, Poland, 2019
- 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, UK, 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
- Live pt 2, Royal College of Art, London, 2018
- Revolve Performance Art Days Festival, organised by Uppsala Konst Museum, Sweden, 2018
- WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2018
- Body Electric, curated by Despoina Zacharopoulou, Dyson Gallery, London, 2017
- Audiovisual Arts Festival, curated by AIAF, Athens Megaron, Athens, 2017
- The End, Solo Exhibition, Hoxton, Athens, 2017
- Lush Art in Austere Times, Isnotgallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2017
- 70 Years of Greek Animation, curated by ASIFA HELLAS, ASFA, Athens, 2016
- Artists' Cards, Elika Gallery, Athens, 2016
- Heatwave, curated by 3137, Pantheon Building, Athens, 2016
- 81st TIF, represented by Cheapart, Thessaloniki, 2016
- BOMB, curated by Take Over Athens, Romantso, Athens, 2016
- This for me and this for you, curated by Dildo Tattoo, Romantso, Athens, 2016
- 12th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, 2016
- Animert, Tribute to Greek animation, TV channel ΕΡΤ, 2016
- Best Greek animated films, selected by AIAF, Institut Français d'Athènes, Athens, 2015
FILM AND ANIMATION FESTIVALS
- Tricky Women Animation Festival 2020 (Vienna)
- 1st Hellas Filmbox Berlin Festival 2016 (Berlin)
- 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: 1st Greek Student Selection
- 6th Animasyros International Animation Festival 2013: Best Greek Student Animation
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
- Artist Volunteer, Assisting artists with learning disabilities, ActionSpace, London 2020
- Facilitator of Marina Abramovic Method, As One, curated by MAI & NEON, Benaki Museum 2016
- Contributor at 8 Session-experiments, led by Li-E Chen - A Silent Opera on the Life and Art of Tehching Hsieh 2017- 2018
AWARDS - SCHOLARSHIPS
- Artworks Fellowship Program 2021
- CEZ Creative Practitioners Fund 2020
- Leventis Foundation scholar 2018-2019
- Leventis Foundation scholar 2017-2018
OTHER
Boxing @ Golden Corner: 2nd place: Greek National Boxing Championship A' Category, 2016
Muay Thai @ White Tiger: 1st place: 15th National Muay Thai Championship, 2014
PRESS
Gasworks | 2021
Open Space Contemporary | 2021
Traverse Catalogue | 2020
6x6 project| 2019
Kaboom | 28 July 2017
Together. | 19 June 2017
el culture gr | 19 December 2016
Frapress.gr| 14 November 2016
The Huffington post Greece | 24 September 2016
Lifo free press | 29 January 2016
Madame Figaro gr | 14 January 2016
Monopoli mag | 4 January 2016
Didee mag | 24 November 2015
Meet the talent ΣΙΝΕΜΑ magazine | 1 March 2013
Zippy Frames | 21 July 2012
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