24/11/2025
Terma Asklipiou by Myrto Xanthopoulou
The artistic world of Myrto Xanthopoulou unfurls through small- and medium-scale works—sculptural assemblages and constructions born of humble, fragile, and often perishable materials: remnants of daily life such as packaging paper, bags, notebooks and note pages, models, sticks, reeds, plaster, tape, glue, paint, cigarette papers. And also: words and phrases written, glued, woven, cut apart, erased. Her works demand time and painstaking handcraft, a resolutely manual process through which the artist stretches her endurance and the resistance of her materials to decay. Through friction, repetition, and exhaustion, she seeks to forge a bond—both physical and spiritual— with materiality.
Her practice is firmly autobiographical, language-driven, and idiosyncratic, revealing her attentiveness to everyday life—visible and invisible, hidden and apparent. Infused with humour, playfulness, and a hint of existential unease, she lends significance to all that unfolds around us and all that we live through, again and again. Hers is a profoundly personal, inward-looking body of work, distilling the familiar, the mundane, and the candid into a poetics of the everyday. She experiments with the meanings that words convey, but also with rhythm, self-expression, poetry, autobiography, loss, and weariness. Her concerns curve toward affect and intimacy; she navigates states of love and longing, care and fatigue, disappointment and depletion. —Daphne Vitali, Art Historian, Curator at National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
Edited by Katerina Vazoura
Design by Studio Lialios Vazoura
Photos (177-191 pp) by Peter Nikoltsos
Language: Greek
Pages: 192 pages
Format: 143 × 210mm, soft cover with flaps
Editions: 200 copies
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