Artist Statement

My practice explores the body as a site of freedom, desire, memory and transformation. Working across drawing, photography, ceramics, poetry, publications and installation, I investigate how intimate experiences move between image, object and text, shifting between what is visible and concealed, personal and collective, sacred and profane.

Much of my work begins with the male body, not simply as a subject to be represented but as a space through which broader questions emerge: how desire is expressed, how intimacy is remembered, and how cultural attitudes shape what can be seen, shown or spoken about. Drawing from queer histories, mythology, literature, personal experience and archival research, I examine the ways bodies carry traces of both private encounters and larger social narratives.

Material processes are central to this investigation. I produce my own drawing materials, including charcoal made from found wood collected on the beaches of Ikaria, and a handmade fixative composed of natural resin such as masticha. These processes extend the work beyond representation, grounding it in landscapes, physical transformation, and embodied labour.

In recent drawings, photographs and publications, references to C.P. Cavafy, queer memory and lived experience intersect with recurring motifs such as horizons, architectural forms, pipes and objects of pleasure. These elements function as both material realities and symbolic forms, exploring circulation, connection, vulnerability and the persistence of desire across time. My ceramic works draw on the visual language of relics, monuments and contemporary sexual objects, recontextualising familiar forms to question distinctions between reverence and taboo.

Rather than offering fixed conclusions, my work creates space for ambiguity and reflection. By moving between abstraction and direct representation, I invite viewers to consider how freedom is experienced through the body, how desire becomes visible, and how personal histories are preserved, transformed and shared.