Archipelago

Archipelago unfolds as a series of sculptural forms that explore the relationship between material, light, and perception. Working within the realm of art and design, the practice focuses on creating still life installations, experiential environments, and objects, demonstrating a fixation with materiality, concept, and tangible spatial experiences. The work stems from an amalgamation of thinking and making between two diverse poles, Greece and New York, switching between the formal and the intuitive, embracing the handmade and the tactile, the experimental and the poetic, aiming to create projects that balance between the long-lasting and the ephemeral.

Building upon the legacy of Cycladic culture and the highly stylized marble or clay idols abstracting everyday or anatomical forms, a series of sculptures is presented that simultaneously furthers an ongoing study into softness, both in form and as a material quality. Cast as translucent inflatables, what was heavy, solid, and hard becomes light, airy, and soft. These shifts offer a reinterpretation of ancient forms and allow viewers to develop new relationships to the work. The transparent archipelago of curvy forms is complemented with light sculptures, tracing trajectories of passing light.