Martha Panagiotopoulou (b. 1991, Athens, Greece) holds an MFA from Glasgow School of Art and a Diploma of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. Her work has been exhibited in various spaces like the ‘Museum of Modern Greek Culture’, ‘Glasgow Museum of Modern Art’ and the ‘UN Climate Change Conference’. She has been awarded the ‘NEON organization’ scholarship prize and has published the poetry collection ‘Hydrias' and the artist book ‘Libella Nova’.
Spanning across sculpture, installation, video and performance with references to hydro-feminist and neo-animistic approaches, her practice deals with gender issues entangled with ecology and envisions post-human, symbiotic worlds. Her research often focuses on female figures/femininities drawn from history, myths, folklore, storytelling and science fiction.
Through her artistic gesture she melts, fuses, cuts and blends glass, mirror, ceramics, stones, marble, minerals, images, digital montages and words. She uses mosaic and glass techniques, to investigate the conceptual space between fragility and rawness, the amorphous and the precise, the tension between vulnerability and resilience. Through transparencies and reflections, she creates multidimensional, ambiguous and distorted realities that shift, dissolve and reanimate as one moves around them.
Her practice, through melting, fragmenting, dismantling, distorting, out-scaling, and re-arranging, aims to highlight the fragile nature of constructed identities, socio-ecological inequalities and gendered roles.
Spanning across sculpture, installation, video and performance with references to hydro-feminist and neo-animistic approaches, her practice deals with gender issues entangled with ecology and envisions post-human, symbiotic worlds. Her research often focuses on female figures/femininities drawn from history, myths, folklore, storytelling and science fiction.
Through her artistic gesture she melts, fuses, cuts and blends glass, mirror, ceramics, stones, marble, minerals, images, digital montages and words. She uses mosaic and glass techniques, to investigate the conceptual space between fragility and rawness, the amorphous and the precise, the tension between vulnerability and resilience. Through transparencies and reflections, she creates multidimensional, ambiguous and distorted realities that shift, dissolve and reanimate as one moves around them.
Her practice, through melting, fragmenting, dismantling, distorting, out-scaling, and re-arranging, aims to highlight the fragile nature of constructed identities, socio-ecological inequalities and gendered roles.