Marina Papadaki

About

Marina Papadaki is a visual artist, born in 1991, and raised in a working class neighborhood closed to Piraeus Port. She lives and works in Athens.
She holds a BA and MA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual and Applied Arts of AUTH in Thessaloniki (2010 - 2015), and a MFA at the Luca School of Arts in Brussels (2017 - 2018).

She is the founder of the Hydroexpress Project, which takes place in a plumber shop at Piraeus, and the editor of the Hydroexpress Publication. Papadaki has participated in exhibitions and Artist Residencies in Greece, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Cyprus, Belgium and Serbia. She is a fellow of SNF Artworks (2019) and, in 2022, her work "Flux" was chosen as distinguished from the Greek PPC. She has done artist talks and has participated in conferences on "socially engaged art" at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Athens School of Fine Arts and the House of Representatives of Cyprus. Between 2015 - 2017, she ran art workshops at the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, and from 2020 she works as an art teacher in high schools for the Greek state. Works of her are in collections in Greece and abroad.

The interpretation of space and the concept of a well-controlled system that oppresses our desires and instincts dominates all of her works. She meditates the diachronic sociopolitical challenges e.g. the need for sovereignty, solidarity, co-existence, and respect. She construct vibrant, colorful paintings using hybrid forms that combine historical and cross -cultural meanings with symbolic elements to create a world between fantasy and reality, often complemented by objects, motion graphics or murals. She draws her imagery from ancient Mediterranean civilizations, everyday images and stories of the working class, hierarchies and values in animal and human communities, architecture, and iconography.

Her practice highlights the beauty of “Hybridity” in all forms, biological – architectural – and philosophical. The content of narration and its representation blur the strict boundaries between norms and hierarchies in contrast with the diachronic mechanisms of power for the control and exploitation of human and environmental resources.

Hydroexpress Project
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News

GROUP SHOW : “Liminality” Citronne Gallery Athens January 18 - March 2, 2024 more info

“Little Ladies “ Isaiah Mansion Athens June 28 - July 2, 2023
“sit+read” Corneliu Miklosi Museum - Hydroexpress Publication - Timișoara, Romania, October 26 — 29, 2023

For portfolio, cv or any inquiries send to:
papadakimarina[at]hotmail.com