Premio Combat Prize

Gardens is a series of existing and future artworks that I am working on under the concept of the new worlds.Wallpaper is a ready-made painting. I paint over it keeping some parts of the existing illustration.The viewer hardly distinguish where the painting of the wallpaper ends and where my painting intervention starts.The core of my project is the idea of experimenting in the processes of perception. Nothing is as it seems, nothing is for granted.Worlds of transience where subjects, objects, and territories live states of continuous transformation and facing surprisingly their potential renaissance, creation, evolution, dissolution and disappearance.This juxtaposition highlights the contingent and transient nature of life that structure our daily experience, where a random incident can penetrate anytime and change the flow of things. In certain way these “Gardens” constitutes “other worlds” made up from slices of unexpected which is visually reflected in the selection of the diversity of images. It is a reaction against the prevailing values and structures of society. A romantic refusal of that ‘sense of reality’ which strives to invade and control the personal sphere of emotions.Through the use, of a language half-rooted in the sub-conscious imagery of symbols, dreams and myth, and half-rooted in the outer world of impressions, science, nanotechnology, physics, mathematics, architecture, chemistry, biology and anatomy, I attempt to achieve a ‘non-sense’ and an incoherence that leads to the entire exploration of the inner sense and the substance.A poetic transformation of the world into a spiritual world, where everything is combined and related.Human achievements, researches, observations and knowledge that grows and flourish from nature. My desire is to go beyond the values of current morality, to return to innocence and create a world independent of any logic or principle.The selective and individualized point of views will provide stimuli for personal mythologies and diversity of interpretation and meaning.Studies: B.A. at Thessaloniki School of Fine Arts ,1998.Master of Fine Arts (MFA, 2 years) at Glasgow School of Art, 2002.I have participated in several international group exhibitions (47) and one solo show. I have a dual identity as an artist and curator.I was Curator of Transleat me, Athens-Greece, 2008,Trauma Queen, Athens-Greece,2007,Who cares about Greek art?, Athens-Greece, 2006 and Trash Art, Bios, Athens-Greece, 2003 and guest curator: On Books and Translation, Beirut-Lebanon, 2011 and Street Hacker, Centro de Extensión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, San Diego-Chile, 2009.Selected Exhibitions: Nuovi Mondi, Corte, Rome, Italy, 2015, The Format Gallery,curator Guido Cabib, Milano, 2014-15, ICRI 2014,Research and Art, Megaron Athens Intrernational Conference Center, Athens, Greece 2014, Santorini Biennale of Arts-International Poster Exhibition, Design a wish for Greece 2013-14, Street Hacker, Centro de Extensión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, San Diego, Chile, 2011, Sapporo Pre-Biennale Contemporary Art Exhibition 2011 – Approaching Art by Leaving Art Behind – 9 Days the Museum Disappears Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan, On Books and Translation, Beirut,Lebanon,2009, Transleat me, Athens,2008, Illuminators, Russia, 2008,Visual Arts in Greece, Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Greece 2007-08, Blind date#12, Athens, Greece 2007-8, Transpositions, Athens, Greece, 2008, Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, 2008. Trauma Queen, Athens, 2007,Visibility, Cheap Art, Athens, 2007,FemFest’ 07, Zagreb, Croatia, 2007, Part time punks, Deste Foundation, Athens 2007, Opa, International Festival of Performance, Athens 2007, One Minute Film and Video Festival, Aarau, Swicherland, 2007, Who cares about Greek art?, Athens, 2006, 11th Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, Cosmos, Athens 2003, Drap art, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain,1999.First winner of the international contest Nuovi Mondi, Corte, Rome, Italy, 2015.