Art
Voice, drawing, and architecture were never sequential. Three forms of the same attention to space, materiality, and presence.
Trained as an architect at NTUA and as a vocalist and acoustic researcher, I have never experienced these disciplines as separate. They are simultaneous, different instruments playing the same inquiry.
My visual work attends to the prints of time… Visual art tries the impossible: a photograph, a drawing, a mark in ink, each is an act of impossible preservation, an attempt to hold what cannot be held.
Performance and installations
I am drawn to places that already carry a voice: a cistern, a well, an ancient theatre, a grove.
I begin by listening to what is already therem the way a space holds, reflects, absorbs or transforms sound. The voice then enters not to fill the space, but to enter into a relationship with it.
Sometimes the work is composed. Sometimes it develops through a more intuitive conversation with the architecture, the landscape, or the people present.
My performances have taken different forms: solo voice, collaborations with dancers and musicians, and site-specific installations in which the movement and listening of the visitor become part of the work.
Visual work
Photography, ink, charcoal, watercolour.
For me, making an image begins with the same gesture as making sound: listening.
A photograph is a way of paying attention to what a place reveals in one particular moment, under one particular light. Drawing asks for a different kind of time. It slows perception down until looking becomes physical, and the hand begins to follow what the eye has discovered.
Sound exists only by unfolding and disappearing. The still image attempts the opposite, and fails usefully.
Collaborations and commissions
I work with dancers, musicians, visual artists, archaeologists and architects.
I am open to site-specific commissions where a place is the starting point rather than the backdrop.
If you are programming a festival, curating an exhibition or working with a building or landscape that seems to want a voice in it, I would be glad to hear about it.