Petros Efstathiadis (b. 1980, Liparo, Pella, Greece) lives and works in Greece. He studied photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK. Efstathiadis’s practice spans photography, sculpture, and installation, and is grounded in the physical materiality of everyday industrial and natural materials collected primarily from his hometown. He constructs assemblages and environments that transform the rural landscape into stages for poetic and theatrical scenes, often photographing these temporary structures, while in other instances presenting them as sculptural installations in their physical form. Blending the familiar with the paradoxical, his work explores the symbolic agency of manufactured objects and reflects on themes of memory, place, labor, and cultural identity, combining elements of humor with a subtle critique of social and cultural conventions. Selected exhibitions include The Equilibrists, organized by the New Museum and DESTE Foundation at the Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; Über Leben am Land, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria; How Long Is Now, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Invisible Cities, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA; Mr Robinson Crusoe Stayed Home: Adventures of Design in Times of Crisis, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; and Touching from Distance, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland. His work is included in the collections of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; MOMus – Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland; HSBC Corporate Art Collection, Paris, France; and the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece.