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Maria Panagiotou

The themes of Maria Panagiotou are loaded by the prominent importance she gives to them and the extremely realistic, almost photographic, way in which she processes them, using the purely painting values: the accuracy of the design, the qualities and the vividness of the colors, the creation of the volume, the light and the shadows, textures, the organization and study of their composition. The process is of particular interest since all the objects depicted are actually made to follow their direction and painting performance. A world – ambiguous, dreamlike and symbolic – emerges with the paradoxical “artifacts” settling on the white surface of the paper or on elaborate painted laces and embroidery. A world where cruelty coincides with sensitivity and poeticity, a world where redness dominates with its intensity and submission.

Objects “phallic”, elaborate instruments of pain and penetration, but also pleasure, sexual pleasure and play. “Ritual”, magic objects of protection and deterrence that recall traditional amulets. And others, unspecified and flexible, with elaborate knots and bindings. Objects that come to detect uncharted and secret aspects of female psyche, trying to throw away fears and insecurities, shaping the moments of being hurt and losing, erotic attraction and violence, optimism and overcoming. The images are imbued with their exceptional aesthetics, they create strong impressions, communicate and invoke more than the obvious, they narrate small stories in direct correspondence with mental and emotional states, emotions and experiences.

Giannis Bolis

Art historian

Portrait photo of Maria Panagiotou

Maria Panagiotou

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