Silent demonstration Silent demonstration, 2023 Performance, Seville Video 2,06’, Performance, Seville A Project with the Master students of Seville. We wanted to see how our silence can influence a demonstration and if a message can be delivered without any speech Spanish Manifestación silenciosa, Sevilla 2023 Video 2,06’ Manifestación silenciosa. Un proyecto con los alumnos del…
Waves of sorrow Waves of sorrow, 2025 Performance, Villa Kérylos, Beaulieu-sur-mer, France Video 5.58 The sea conceals many things. Its deep sounds tell hidden stories, different from games and laughter. It is a solemn, silent sea, carrying songs for those we have lost. A silent threat, an uncertain horizon, it gathers the voices of vanished…
Photo credits: Lambros Papanikolatos (Peace of) bread (Peace of) bread, 2024 Performance, Athens Video 29′ I was “inspired” to create this performance when I saw videos from the flour massacre in Gaza by the end of February 2024. Despite the incident, starving civilians carried flour sacks stained with blood to bring them to their families. …
The transformation of an encyclopaedia volume to a religious book. Sound by Makis Solomos, whispering words from the encyclopaedia volume combined with payers, speeches of the Pope Fancisco on themes of the abuse caused by the cleric.
In this version, focusing on gender abuse, I use red sand, on verses connected with the theme of women and the (un) equality that exists in the three religious books, the Bible (in Hebrew), the New Testament (in Greek ) and the Koran (in Arabic); creating my own symbolic center of the three religions.
This performance is focused on the abuse against the gypsy women in Andalusia.A “gypsy” man carries a blind “gypsy” woman while a macho-chauvinist flamenco song is in the background. She is wearing a typical pocadots shirt.
In the name of “God” and male domination, abuse against women is a normal phenomenon; women tend to accept their destiny because it is God’s will and they do not even dare to question it.
This project aims to focus on the abuse of power and violence against women, not only on a socio-cultural level, but also on religious-political. Focusing on the so-called “honour crimes” in Israel.
The marble piece (Wash your Sins), is used as an emblem and an order. It is located in the public-space at the patio of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Seville (which was a convent).
The yellow badge was a symbol of shame and humiliation at the second world war against the Jewish nation. The act of using the badge but instead writing the word Arab is to show how the world today is reacting against the Arab nation.
This action, writing on water the word Democracy in different languages refers to the «power» of the meaning of Democracy nowadays, the significance of Democracy is diluted, leaves no sign in the water.
Let’s play is an act of political power game, playing with religious symbols (the Christian Cross and the Islamic semi moon) instead of X vs. O.
