Lands of Creation,, 2019

Group exhibition in Averoff Art Gallery, Metsovo Greece curated by Lina Tsikouta

Katerina Papazissi focuses on the body and nature. For the work she produced especially for the exhibition, it all started with the discovery of a photo of her extended family, which prompted her to bring together Metsovo’s nature and figures of the artist’s family members. The region’s landscape and nature, and the experiences and memories of the artist’s childhood all merge into a complex composition. Papazissi originally comes from Metsovo, and she uses her background to draw on lived memories. She considers her childhood memories to have played a large part in shaping her identity …Indistinct eyes, numberless hands, figures hidden in the foliage, tree trunks, flowers and fruits in a unique, expressionistic, surrealistic, abstract work of psychoanalytic associations based on memory and ancestry.

Lina Tsikouta, extracts from the exhibition catalog