Kallirroi Kostikoglou

Lives and works in Athens, Greece

Artist statement

My artistic practice revolves around the tension between the body, language and materiality as fields of performativity, imaginary structures and political exposure, exploring themes of decay and memory. The body ceases to be the dominant bearer of identity, becoming instead a place of transition, disguise and incessant reformulation. The body is exposed and distorted, blurring the boundaries of what is considered "human". Language emerges as an independent entity, adding a new dimension to the existing body. Rather than serving as a familiar tool of communication, it becomes a new hybrid — an instrument that governs the existing order, situated between reason and the irrational. The fabric of my family tradition, spanning more than a century, embraces the cracks of memory as a game of remembrance and irony, where the immaterial is imprinted on the material and the personal dialogues with the collective. I am interested in exploring time and place as distinct materialities, where the invisible disrupts normative structures of experience and transforms the perceivable. I emphasise materiality that is open to discontinuities and transformations, and that destabilises normative structures of experience. In this context, earth, labour, language and death engage in dialogue as fields of resistance and survival, revealing the imaginary space where gesture meets ritual. Through installation art, soft sculpture, documentary film, video art and drawing, I explore the complex...

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