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.
One of Kandinsky’s ideas was that there are certain fundamental associations between (primary) colors and shapes (square, circle, and triangle). He ran a test on people and found yellow triangle, red square, and blue circle.
Needles are placed inside high heel red shoes insipid by the work of the Mexican artist Elina Chauvet as a protest against women that were killed due to gender abuse.
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.
As Berger comments in his book Ways of Seeing about hidden ideologies in visual images (from the point of view of western aesthetics), men tend to look at women as an object which are not allowed to think for themselves; they are constantly under the judgment of men.
As Berger comments in his book Ways of Seeing about hidden ideologies in visual images (from the point of view of western aesthetics), men tend to look at women as an object which are not allowed to think for themselves; they are constantly under the judgment of men.
Shadows is a series of black and white landscape photographs, taken in Stavros Crete. The “architecture” of the landscape and it’s shadows has enigmatic fragments, letting the imagination create its own story.
The current video and sound project A-taraxia is a sonic archive. (Αταραξία, a Greek term used by Epicurus to define the state of tranquility, but by separating the A from taraxia, the meaning changes completely and it means the exact opposite).
The Kuffiieh is a symbol of the Palestinian people, an emblem of national struggle, unity and activism. The idea is to use it the as a foundation material and play with the idea of what is beneath.
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.
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.
