Eva Papamargariti (b. 1987, Greece) is based between Athens and London. She uses a variety of mediums such as moving image, printed material and sculptural installations that explore the relationships of cognitive and affective entanglement within the multiple realities that we live in, as well as the dynamic intra - connection and intra - action of events that occur in various systems. Her work unfolds and dwells in the suspended moment and space where grotesque, myth, fiction and realism collide and an amalgam of diverse worlds emerge. Papamargariti's research and practice delves into themes related to the notions of identification and metamorphosis, the idea of simultaneity, the merging and dissolving of our surroundings with the virtual, the mundane, the eerie and the extraordinary.
She is interested in the constant diffusion of fabricated synthetic images that define our everyday experience, the symbiotic procedures and entanglement that take place between humans, nature and technology. More specifically through video, text, sound, motion capture, AR, CG animations, 3d scans, character creation softwares, sculptures and textiles she explores notions of becoming, liminality, the dialectics of fluidity, techno-romance, transformation, and characteristics of symbiosis between human and non-human agents and the intricate traces and kinships that this entanglement produces.
Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Facitious Imprints (Stoneway Series)’, New Museum, New York; ‘Uh everything looks so fresh – Oh everything is so rotten!’, Nicoletti Contemporary, London, UK; Solo Presentation, HEK Museum, LISTE Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Hypercreatures’, Max Emst Museum, Bruhl, Germany; A Gathering on Land and Art’, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; ‘Transfer Download: Sea Change’, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA. Her work is featured in public and private collections such as the Dakis Joannou Collection (Deste Foundation), Onassis Foundation, PCAI Collection, Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection, MOMuS collection and more.