ELENA DEMETRIA CHAΝTZIS
Visual arts
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Elena Demetria Chantzis (Athens, 1986) is a Greek-Italian visual artist and architect based in Athens. She studied architecture at Sapienza University in Rome and holds postgraduate degrees in design from the Politecnico di Milano and in art and architecture from the Instead (parapoesis) programme of the University of Thessaly, where she has also worked as a tutor. Her work emanates from the observation of objects of the everyday life, which she records through photography, text, drawings, video and sound and recreates in new images reflecting on contemporary lifestyles. She has participated in shows such as The Orbit at Kalanea Space in Athens; Walking the dog on the salt, in the context of the Marpissa festival in Paros; Geometries, held at the Agricultural University of Athens, as a contributor to the project A knee on the ground; Heatwave at State of Concept gallery; and Staging of Objectsat Circuits and Currents. She has collaborated with the architectural initiatives Kassandras, Diplomates and with the architect Aristide Antonas for the production of installations and exhibitions such as documenta14 and the Venice Biennale, and worked for art spaces such as the Leefewerk project and Dino Morra gallery (in the context of Art Athina). In addition, she has served as artist assistant to Mary Zygouri for the Aeschylean Festival and Rainer Oldendorf for documenta 14.