In this work, I worked with the idea of ugliness, in order to create an artwork. I tried to show how time affects what we consider beautiful which in our case is youth and beauty. In my painting I created a barbie figure to symbolize beauty, which is being devoured from a monstrous-looking male. This ugly male figure is a reference to Goya’s painting “Saturn devouring his son” where Saturn, one of the Titans eats his son alive so that he won’t be able to take his place. Here instead of Saturn, we have Chronos, who eats the beauty out of a young woman who also happens to be a universal symbol of femininity.
The triptych depicts the fight to escape my old life. The first painting “The Dead Man’s Life” illustrates a life with no purpose, no emotion, lying as a dead man wasting my life away. It continues with the second art piece, “The Rebellion”, which shows my rebellion from this way of life, as I attempt to destroy everything related to that period. Lastly, “The Liberation” showcases my achievement of reaching a life with new purpose and ambitions full of color and emotions around the world of art.
In this work, I tried to work around the basic notions of Minimalism, getting inspired by artists such as Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin and Robert Morris. Thinking about the basic shape of minimalism, the cube, I created a cube container that inside the viewer will find a second smaller wooden cube.
What is interesting here is that my main cube is made from reflective glass which means that the smaller one inside is infinitively reflected, enhancing my attempt to highlight the most fundamental shape of minimalism.
“Harmonious Opposites” is a collage series consisting of 4 collages of the same design and logic. It shows two female figures looking at each other. These two figures represent two very different sides of mine, my masculine and feminine side respectively, living together in my body respectfully and peacefully after many years of identity crisis.
“Sole Memory” encapsulates a process of footwear creation that intertwines history, memory and contemporary culture. Actualized in collaboration with a shoe cobbler, the project deconstructs and reconstructs various shoe forms, to create new shoe designs that range from flip-flops to sneakers, sandals and Greek grandpa slippers, that appear as subversive yet wearable designs. Parts of old shoes have been combined to create contemporary footwear that exposes the insides of the shoes and brings the visible damage to the surface. The history, memory, wear, and trauma carried by shoes becomes central to the work. The resulting footwear appears as beat-up and worn-down, speaking to the contemporary culture regarding the life cycle of shoes within our throw-away society. The work emphasizes sustainability by repurposing old shoes and highlights the often-overlooked craftsmanship of shoe cobblers, celebrating their role in repurposing materials.
Αντίλαλοι (Echoes) is a sound installation consisting of found objects. By recreating a stripped-down version of the artist's childhood bedroom, he revisits his trauma - the result of a dysfunctional family. Throughout working on this project, the artist undergoes a process to heal his younger self and invites the audience to do the same. Elements and voices of the artist’s childhood are intertwined with his present, creating a discussion between the child and the adult in this deteriorating room. As the trauma leaves the kid hollow just like the space, one questions if the audience -through their own experiences- will find their echo in this empty room.
Memorial for the anonymous casualties in the Gaza conflict. An artwork that intends to reinstate the humanity of those lives otherwise forgotten due to their statistical representation.
'Moments' is a set of four sculptures, each capturing my most intense emotions I’ve experienced in my time abroad. Using body casting and found objects, I create surreal personifications of my happiness, anger, sorrow, and insanity.
“Sterile Rot” dissects the internalized and external sexualization of the female body through the lens of the medical gaze. Through a blend of paintings and video the work confronts the uncomfortable romanticization of the female body in pain, in compromising positions, its leakage, raw form juxtaposed to the concreteness and sterility of medical equipment. The body emerges not merely as a vessel of expression, but as a tool itself, challenging viewers to confront the complexities of power dynamics and the commodification of female pain in contemporary society.
In my artwork, I weave Christian symbolism into every aspect, aiming to evoke a profound spiritual experience. The baptismal bed symbolizes purification, while the illuminated canvases represent the primary colors used in byzantine portraits of saints,
guiding viewers on a journey of faith and self-discovery, inviting them to deepen their connection with the divine or to simply tag along on my journey towards accepting Christ into my life.
