Repetitive Acts

The title ‘Repetitive Acts’ seeks primarily to define the nature of the artistic process. Each of the three artists, having established a highly personal modus operandi, repeats elements from the vocabulary and method they have mastered.

Thus, three distinctive painterly styles unfold in a joint exhibition, revealing their creative process while emphasizing their lived knowledge and repetitive rhythms. Using familiar materials and techniques, their artistic approaches are inextricably linked to their artistic past, as if there were a thread that, as it spans time, bears witness in a very sensitive and visible way to each artist’s identity, while simultaneously highlighting aspects of their creative dynamism.

Konstantinos Patsios’s ‘Collages’, as illustrations of personal intimacy, create episodes that shape their conceptual and stylistic exchanges like ironic contrasts that focus on works/sources from the past.

Through a distinctive ‘Crafting Geography’, Alexia Xafopoulou narrates a secret dialogue with nature, in which each of her landscapes seems to evoke moments of Byzantine sanctity through her distinctly personal handling of pigments and threads.

Eleftheria Stoikou’s ‘Secret Camouflage’ carefully reenacts the ritual act of design and inner transformation, attempting—both literally and metaphorically—to reconnect with the traces of time and decay.

[comments by Thalia Stefanidou]