She started taking photographs as an amateur when she was 28 years old. It was some kind of love which still continues to give her that feeling until today. For about 2 to 3 years she took a small break. Photography was her 'salvation ' when she felt totally blank inside, when she was questioning her own existence. Her feminist art concerns politics. The power struggles,within four walls, and the tension, the violence,the particular mysteries of life, in a family, live in the world. Her images are constructed part from forgotten mementos, torn,erased, burned, discarded prints and postcards. The artist combines this unlikely source of material into dark concoctions of seemingly,randomly assembled fragments that she resolves into compositions which always mean much more than the sum up of their parts.
" I am half-sleepwalker and half-creator"
Born in Lamia, in 1984. She lives in Arkitsa, a small village in Greece. She graduated from the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science. In 2011 she attended photography lessons at the Zografou Municipality artistic workshop in Athens. Ever since she has been participating in group exhibitions, her photos have been distinguished in competitions and are being published in print and online media.
She participated during the Athens Pride festival in Technopolis (2021). She has completed the online Supplementary Education Program “Photography at Work Advertising” offered by the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (2017- 2018), the coursera online course “The Camera Never Lies” offered by the University of London (2018) and the online seminars offered by the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) titled “Seeing Through Photography” (2018) and “Modern Art and Ideas” (2019).
She has also completed the education seminar on “Planning and Revisal of art exhibitions” (culture webinar, 2020), the online course “Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender” offered by the University of Melbourne (2020) and the seminar “Words spun out of Images: Visual and Literal Art Culture in 19th Century” (2021). She has collaborated with IFocus.gr and Freethinking.org (2017) and Photologio.gr (2019) as an editor. Currently she collaborates with the photography magazine Photonet Nexusmedia as a freelancing partner. She has curated the art projects "Under negotiation" (2022, 2023) and "Everything but the girl" (2022). Since 2022, she teaches seminars on photography and the aesthetics of the image.
Arkitsa Fthiotidos, Greece
35200
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