Oana M Karagiannopoulou

Lives and works in Athens, Greece

Artist statement

The Freedom of Becoming: A Journey of Continuity O2ô8n — Oana M Karagiannopoulou My artistic practice and life has always been and is a dialogue between the beauty, the rigor and complexity of musical architecture and the fluid freedom of becoming and visual expression. For thirty years, I have explored the profound concept of "becoming"—an inner awareness I noted in personal writings in 1995, and articulated in 2007, in the application for the Master 2 in Musicology/Acoustics at Université Paris VIII: “The only time in which I exist is: I will have been. A future present perpetually past.” Science has stated it recently, although all humans are creative—and so obvious I believe, especially to artists, all the time, in all ways, across all layers of existence and non-existence. As a former classical musician, my visual narratives frequently integrate the vibration of the "one-line" technique alongside deep musical resonance. I sense, paint, and write within a space dedicated to acoustic resonance and poetic touch. While my current work visually highlights frequencies, thoughts, conversations, reflections, feelings, the inner child, love, perceptions, and both inner and outer worlds, it captures the multidirectional and multilayered sensitive, sensible, aware and creative consciousness dynamic within the universes. My intimate presence in what I write and create is a spontaneous connection, a resonance into the philosophical silent spark unfolding through drawings, painted...

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