About
I am a visual artist from Greece based in 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 the real and the imaginary. 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 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
Ongoing
miss information, Sylvia Kouvali, Pireaus, GR
2025
Everynight, (screenings) curated by Panos Fourtoulakis, various locations, Athens, GR
Art Athina (duo booth) with Cypher, booth C2, project spaces section, Athens, GR
Radical rest, curated by Stavros Kapetanios and Vassilia Kaga, Okay space, Athens, GR
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
Dispatch Feminist Moving Image, (screening) Late at Tate, Tate St Ives, UK
Athens Festival of Queer Performance, FAC Research, Athens, GR
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
Women in Balkan Animation, curated by Mina Sablic, 14th Zabroffka ISFF, Białystok, POL
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
Body Electric, curated by Despoina Zacharopoulou, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
Audiovisual Arts Festival, curated by AIAF, Athens Megaron, Athens, GR
Residencies
2023 Resident Artist at Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles, US
2020 Resident Artist at Conditions Studio Programme, London, UK
Links/ Press
Ducato prize | 2025
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
Contact [email protected]