SCULPTURES & INSTALLATIONS
ΦΩΛΙΑ
Η Κολέτ Ντόουλινγκ στο βιβλίο της «Το σύνδρομο της Σταχτοπούτας» αναφερόταν στην διπλή επιθυμία των γυναικών από τη μία να διατηρήσουν την ασφάλεια του σπιτιού - φωλιάς και από την άλλη την επιθυμία τους να ζήσουν ελεύθερα. Όπως υποστηρίζει, τελικά αυτό που τις αδρανοποιεί είναι ο δικός τους φόβος μπροστά στην ανεξαρτησία. Έτσι κάθε φορά επιλέγουν “καταφύγια-κουκούλια” από τα οποία προσπαθούν να ξεφύγουν παραμένοντας όμως πάντα εκεί.
Η φωλιά ως έννοια και ως φόρμα αποτελεί τη θεματική αυτής της σειράς έργων, άλλοτε αναδεικνύοντας το εσωτερικό της περιεχόμενο και άλλοτε το εξωτερικό. Όταν η προστασία συνδέεται με τον εγκλωβισμό και το καταφύγιο με την φυλακή, τότε στα μορφοπλαστικά στοιχεία των έργων συνδυάζεται το σκληρό με το μαλακό, το κοίλο με το τετραγωνισμένο, το εσωτερικό με το εξωτερικό, το θερμό με το ψυχρό.
Η χρήση υλικών όπως το νήμα, η πετονιά και τα σχοινιά λειτουργούν άλλοτε ως δύναμη δέσμευσης και άλλοτε ως δύναμη απελευθέρωσης. Αποτελούμενα από συνθετικές ύλες, κάνουν ορατή την αντίθεσή τους αλλά και την ένωσή τους με τα φυσικά υλικά όπως το ξύλο, ο πηλός και το μέταλλο. Η αφομοίωσή τους ή η επιβολή τους σ΄αυτά, δημιουργούν μία νέα φύση.
Nest
In «The Cindirella Complex”, Colette Dowling wrote about women’s two-fold desire: to maintain the sense of safety provided by the home/nest on the one hand and to live freely on the other. As Dowling claims, what immobilises them is their own fear of independence. So they always opt for shelters/cocoons, from which they try to escape nonetheless always remaining there.
The theme of this sequence of art works is the nest, both as a concept as well as a form, accordingly conveying either the nest’s inner or outer content. When protection is connected to entrapment and shelter is associated with imprisonment, then the morphoplastic elements of the artwork are a combination of hard and soft, concave and square, interior and exterior, warm and cold.
The use of materials such as thread, fishing wire and rope function either as a force of commitment or as a force of liberation. These synthetic materials both contrast and blend with the natural materials of the work such as wood, ceramic and metal. Imposing themselves on the latter or absorbed by them, they create a new nature.
sculpture maquettes
sculpture maquette, wood, elastic textile, plaster, 20,7x13x5cm, 2004
sculpture maquette, wood, elastic textile, plaster, 11x11,5x15cm, 2004
sculpture maquette, wood, elastic textile, plaster, 7x17,5x9,5cm, 2004
sculpture maquette, wood, elastic textile, plaster, 2004
sculpture maquette, wood, elastic textile, plaster, 21x20x22cm, 2004
sculpture maquette, wood, elastic textile, plaster, nails, 18x7x7cm, 2004
sculpture maquette, wood, elastic textile, nails, 13,5x9x9,5cm & 13,5x9,5x7cm, 2004
sculpture maquette, wood, plaster, thread, 8,5x8,5x9cm, 2004
sculpture maquette, wood, plaster, elastic textile, 11,5x10x11,5cm, 2004
sculpture maquette, wood, metal, 8,x8,x7cm, 2004
sculpture maquette, wood, threaded rods, flying - line, wire, oil colours, 34x8,5x6,5cm, 2004
details, wood, threaded rods, flying - line, wire, oil colours, 34x8,5x6,5cm, 2004
sculpture maquette, wood, sewing thread, threaded rods, 20x13,5x15cm, 2004
sculpture maquette,wood, threaded rods, sewing thread, 64x20x7cm, 2003
details, wood, threaded rods, sewing thread, 64x20x7cm, 2003
sculpture maquette,wood, threaded rods, sewing thread, 38,5x3,5x11cm, 2003
sculpture maquette, plaster, soap, metal screws with loop, 19x3,5x3,5cm, 18,5x4,5x2cm, 2003
sculpture maquette, plaster,metal screws with loop, 20,5x4x4cm, 2003
sculpture maquette, ceramic, 4,5x7,5x4,5cm & 2,6x4,5x4cm, 2002
SCULPTURES
wood, flying - line, ceramic, threaded rods, oil colours, 86x15x15cm, 2004
details, wood, oil colours, 86x15x15cm, 2004
details, wood, flying - line, ceramic, threaded rods, oil colours, 86x15x15cm, 2004
wood, elastic textile, plaster, 104x50x45cm, 2004
wood, elastic textile, wire, nails, 76x17x16cm, 2004
details, wood, elastic textile, wire, 76x17x16cm, 2004
wood, elastic textile, plaster, rope, 50x50x50cm, 2004
wood, elastic textile, plaster, 54x52x37cm, 2004
wood, elastic textile, plaster, nails, 43x89x49cm, 2004
wood, elastic textile, plaster, 130 x 93 x 90 cm, 2004
sideways, wood, elastic textile, plaster, 130 x 93 x 90 cm, 2004
one side, wood, elastic textile, plastic, nails, 63x40x22cm, 2004
details, wood, elastic textile, plastic, nails, 63x40x22cm, 2004
wood, paper, plaster, stainless steel, 6x10x40cm & 6x19,5x49cm, 2004
details, wood, paper, plaster, stainless steel, 2004
forwards, plastic lanes, elastic textile, 135 x 170 x 260 cm, 2004
inside, plastic lanes, elastic textile, 135 x 170 x 260 cm, 2004
sideways, plastic lanes, elastic textile, 135 x 170 x 260 cm, 2004
2004
INSTALLATIONS
wood, threaded rods, sewing thread, variable dimensions, 2004
foam - rubber, ceramic, sewing thread, 10x160x105cm, 2004
wood, elastic textile, nails, variable dimensions, 2004
2004
1999-2003
ceramic, 80x61x30cm,1999, photo by Roula Vidali
one side, limestone, rubber, eye bolt, steel wire rope, 68x14x17cm, 2003
other side, limestone, rubber, steel wire rope, 68x14x17cm, 2003
ceramic, metal, 35x57x43cm, 2002
wood, thread, 21,5x15x15,5cm, 2001
wood, rope, plaster, 31x30x26cm, 2002
detail, wood, rope, plaster, 31x30x26cm, 2002
wood, thread, plaster, 30x30x25cm, 2002
wood, 19x47x25cm, 2001
ceramic, metal, 23x50x27cm, 2002
ceramic, 19x29,5x21cm, 2002
ceramic, 9,5x29,5x21cm, 2002
ceramic, flying - line, wire, 9x9,5x7cm, 2002
ceramic, flying - line, 6x12,5x5cm, 2002
ceramic, metal, variable dimensions, 2002
detail, ceramic, variable dimensions, 2002
wood, metal, thread, 86x11x11cm, 2002
detail, wood, metal, thread, 86x11x11cm, 2002
wood, plaster, 13,5x14x8cm, 2002
wood, plaster, 13,5x14x8cm, 2002
wood, metal, sewing thread, 22x16x7cm, 2002
wood, metal, 123,5x47x14,5cm, 1999
wood, metal, 123,5x47x14,5cm, 1999
wood, metal, 41x15x20cm, 1999
sideways, wood, metal, 83x22x30cm, 1999
sideways, wood, metal, 83x22x30cm, 1999
a maquette for train station, wood, metal, wire, 25x50x2cm, 2001
Participation in 1st Scuiptural Workshop of Skyros marble, 2006
Participation in 1st Scuiptural Workshop of Skyros marble, 2006
Participation in 1st Scuiptural Workshop of Skyros marble, 2006
Participation in 1st Scuiptural Workshop of Skyros marble, limestone (sculpture on the left), 2006