Nicolas Vamvouklis in conversation with Foteini Palpana

Nicolas Vamvouklis (NV): Foteini, it’s great meeting you at the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, where your solo show is currently on view. This is actually the first time I get to see your work up close. Could you briefly introduce me to your art practice? Foteini Palpana (FP): It is great meeting you too, Nicolas, and thank you for this interview. As is the case in this show, my work develops in installations combining different mediums, which tend to become more sculptural over the years. My practice is linked to an interest in categories of the natural environment, such as the ground and the landscape. In the past, my works have adopted the characteristics of the map, the model, the index, or the archive, gradually giving way to artificial environments of geological or even bodily formations. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*5HO93ms7yyuzQiVvw3UM1g.jpeg" style="height:394px; width:700px" /> “View of Me”, 2017, video, colour, no sound, 8.32 min., video still NV: A couple of years ago, you created “View of Me,” a performance for the camera, and now this exhibition is entitled “View of Us.” There seems to be a shift to collectivity. How do these two cases relate to each other? <a href="https://artworksfellows.medium.com/nicolas-vamvouklis-in-conversation-with-foteini-palpana-fe2559d06399">Visit Now</a>