Rallou Panagiotou
Born in Athens, Greece.
Athens School of Fine Art, University of Barcelona.
Selected shows:
2007: GRUPS/ Hydra School Project; PART TIME PUNKS, Deste Foundation; TRUE ROMANCE, The Breeder gallery; OLD NEWS-POST CARD LOVERS, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen; MEATSPACE, Kodra Action Field.
2006: ALL THAT REMAINS IS FUTURE , Patra; FUCK YOUR DREAMS THIS IS HEAVEN, Velvet.
2005: WE STOCK/ AMOR ES MI PECADO/ THE CLOSER YOU WILL GET TO A FACE TO FACE , Project Space, Athens.
2004: ANTIMAIMOUISME, Locus, Athens.
2003: 20ROOMS, FIRST RESIDENCE, Alexandras Old Refugee Residence.
My work is about building “stages”. Through reference to personal memory, as well as to a great extent art history, I stage situations of psychological tension, isolation, loss of power or luxury. The works seek a balance between peak and decadence, often using symbolic replacements and formal juxtapositions. In this work, I am interested in the human situation as spectacle and, through that, in the spectacle as an object of art and vice versa.