About
I am a visual artist from Greece based in between London & Athens. Working across moving image, installation, performance 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 femaleness as an existential condition rooted in all human beings through which we can access chaotic worlds that escape the order of language.
EDUCATION
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS, 2021
- Resident Artist at Conditions Studio Programme, 2020
- MA Royal College of Art, Contemporary Art Practice, September 2019
- BA Fine Arts and Design, Athens University of Applied Sciences, 2015
EXHIBITIONS - SHOWS
Mr. Cook, Writing Space Resident Writer, Open Space, London, 2021
Conditions, Unit No.48 & No.66, Whitgift Centre, London, 2021
Visualising Care, curated by the Duke Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Online, Duke University, U.S., 2021
Ask Self-Doll ep.3 commission, curated by Akis Kokkinos, Benjamin Dardy & Lenette Lua, Online, Gasworks, London, 2021
no-body's room, curated by The Room Projects & LUX London, Paris, 2021
Hoax Publication, Digital Exhibition, UK, 2020
I Wanna Show You How, curated by Loose Threads, Digital Exhibition, UK, 2020
Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, Digital Exhibition, Greece, 2020
Queer Art(ists) Now, Rose Lipman Building, London, 2020
23rd International Encounters Traverse, Le Cratere Cinema & Institute of Fine Arts, Toulouse, 2020
Tricky Women Animation Festival, Vienna, 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, 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, Dyson Gallery, London, 2017
Audiovisual Arts Festival, represented by AIAF, Athens Megaron, Athens, 2017
The End, Solo Exhibition, Hoxton, Athens, 2017 (solo)
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
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
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
CONTACT