alexandra pambouka

I am a visual artist
The main concepts around my work are sustainability, rituality, tradition, and playfulness. I create abstract forms combining colour, shapes, and rhythm.
With “the seriousness of a child at play,” I choose leftover pieces of fabric and other materials, reclaiming what others deem waste, and transform them into a language of renewal, softness, and resilience - creating new forms in which vulnerability itself becomes a form of resistance.

Visual Arts

Work

Tenderscapes

The series of artworks revolves around the tension between softness
and hardness and contemplates both the toll and the value of staying “soft” in a world that keeps hardening.

Nature folk kitch

Trying to identify the connection between nature, folk culture and kitch culture digital assamblages of digital and physical artworks

Continuous thread

A socially engaged project that is presented diferently each time. The installation is a crochet of jute twin
CONTINUOUS THREAD ARCHIVE

Modus operandi 17, Displacement As a State of Mind, Koraï, CY

PHOTO CREDITS: Kyriakos Christodoulides

Guests' living room, thoc apothikes theatre, cy

@chor_i_o, Xarkis Festival 2021, CY

A site specific multi-sensory installation at Lympia village during Xarkis Festival. Inspired by the space, village, people and beyond. Made of upcycled garbages collected from the village. @chor_i_o
ABOUT MY PARTICIPATION

Press

Parathyro
Philgood

Basketry

Research Focus

The basket weaving and the reed-mat weaving, as elements of intangible cultural heritage, focusing on the prospects that can create a positive vibe for the society’s benefit, especially in cyprus.

Education

Symplexi

"Symplexi" workshop for “a climate challenge” of phytorio/visual artists association 2018

Festive Workshop

Workshop for children at Nicosia municipality venue 2018

SURROUNDING ELEMENTS

One-day workshop ‘Surrounding Elements’at Xarkis Festival 2021: Collecting tangible and digital material (images, sounds, objects, plants, garbage) from the surrounding space. One can consciously understand the elements of the place/environment/space, through the creative process – collage/assemblage (digital or tangible). During the workshop questions will be explored, e.g. What do I choose to isolate from my surroundings? Where do I choose to focus? What would I like to change?

Talks

Fashion awareness festival 2019 CY

A PRESENTATION TITLED “BASKETRY AT FIRST GLANCE” AT THE DISCUSSIONS SECTION OF THE FESTIVAL

Residency

Portuguese basket technology 2019, Lisbon

MICHELANGELO FOUNDATION PROGRAM PRESENTATION
PASSAO AO FUTURO PROGRAM PRESENTATION

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