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My name is Niko

I am a London-based artist, educator and writer working on contemporary photography, gender studies and mental health. I have a background in both Italian studies and contemporary art and I am currently training at IOE to teach Art and Photography in secondary school. I am also a lecturer of Italian at King's College London.

 

My art practice draws on fashion, pop culture, literature, medical sciences and philosophy to

investigate issues that range from media representation, consumerism, and the beauty system to practices of 

subjectification and exploitation of bodies, especially in the context of gender. With the site-specific work

 "Beauty_Beauty_Matters", installed on Depop, I have been interested in performative practices of dissemination of the work of art, for instance through social media, commercial flyers, and the marketplace. Using a playful tone while selling items in platforms not originally designed for the arts, my work approaches the everyday 

consumer raising questions about gender stereotypes, the happiness imperative as well as the role of art

 in contemporary society.

 

My work also explores the performativity of materials as well as the relationship between body and matter, focusing on the body as the site of power and resistance.  Throughout both practices of enlargement and reduction. my creations question the body’s physical boundaries and social constraints, while at the same time addressing its infinite possibilities for extension, mutation, and interrelations. Thus, my art exists both within and beyond the normativity of bodies, opening a space for resistance, a space for the emergence of “the body without organs” – to borrow 

Deleuze’s and Guattari’s expression. 

 

With one of my recent works “I Sound, Therefore I Am”, I push the investigation between bodies further, rethinking the materiality of bodies beyond representationalism. By deconstructing the cartesian Cogito Ergo Sum, the body claims its existence through the act of sounding. This work challenges binary logic, asserting existence beyond societal representation and norms, while standing against politics of visibility that marginalise and oppress individuals

 

" My Uncle's Cock" breaks the silence surrounding Child Sexual abuse and explores the material violence underneath representationalism and the objectification of women in a man-made world.  By watching the raw meat decompose, feelings of disgust and shame are directed from the inside out, from the victim to the perpetrator. This works aims to uncover the devastating impact of CSA on survivors. 

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