I am a Cyprus-born artist, curator, and creative producer operating across contemporary and performing arts between Cyprus and Finland. My practice focuses on the performativity of “noise” and its role in contemporary society. I construct happenings and social encounters that expose tensions, frictions, social relations, contradictions embedded in social reality.
Coming from a Mediterranean island, on the crossroad of Middle East and Europe, currently under illegal occupation and with a long colonial history, my positionality, interests and practice embody the realities and the traces such issues leave in one’s body. I draw together discourses from sound studies, performance studies, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, and post-structuralism.
I approach “noise”, not only as a sound and physical phenomenon, but as a driving force and a lens exposing the structures that organise social reality as a means to address the artist’s role in society; “noise” is an active agent that allows me to explore how to challenge the status quo, and how social change is traced and emerged through rupture, disruption, error, collective and social experience.
My artistic practice is process-driven operating across performance, live art, sound, sculpture, bodily practice, dramaturgy and experimental formats. I design and develop wearable instruments that I refer to as “body sculptures”, often inviting one’s body into states of suspension, tension, movement, and constraint, foregrounding endurance, transformation, and social capacity. Rooted in autobiographical materials, my artistic practice intersects with contemporary theatre and performance, avant-garde and noise traditions, dramaturgy, narrative design and character development, mythology, and philosophy, often engaging grotesque aesthetics.
My curatorial practice focuses on the performativity of social systems and the artists’ role in society, constructing sites of reflection and living archives where one can find the reality which exists in sites of ontological and performative nature. Through creative methodologies, art and research, community engagement and collaborative process, I address the realities and amplify the voices of people affected by social performativities.
Recently, I co-curated a refugee integration program based on creative methods, organised by the Nicosia International Festival in collaboration with ΕΜΣΤ | National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens. The program included creative workshops, a photographic portrait exhibition, an educational program for primary schools, guided tours in the city of Nicosia, seminars, and lectures.
As a creative producer I work in large-scale international contexts, supporting the development and presentation of performing arts. Through this role, I worked with leading institutions and organisations including Festival d’Avignon, Onassis Stegi, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Schaubühne, Mercat de les Flors, Teatros del Canal, Broadway Entertainment Group, Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation, and the Greek National Opera, European Parliament, among others.
My production practice focuses on enabling complex artistic projects, facilitating cross-cultural collaboration, and navigating the intersection between artistic vision, production, and institutional frameworks.
I hold an Master of Arts in Live Art and Performance Studies from Theatre Academy (Teatterikorkeakoulu) of the University of the Arts (Taideyliopisto) in Helsinki (2020), and with a BA(hons) in Art & Design from Kingston University London (2014).
I am a Koneen Säätiö fellow (2020–2022) and was an artist-in-residence at Art OMI Center in New York (2023). I have exhibited internationally across Europe and the United States. I was commissioned by the Museum of Impossible Forms, Kontula Electronic, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Goethe Institut Zypern, Defibrillator Art Gallery in Chicago, and Luisa Catucci Gallery in Berlin. My work has been featured in Wire Magazine and Rondo Classice Magazine, among others.