I express myself through various mediums. To me Art is an existential tool. Just like the vast world of dreams, full of pictures and symbols, a world ruled by different laws from those that apply in real life, waiting in a parallel universe for us to decode.

 

I see Art as a contemporary mythological landscape. With the human body as the main character, I reorganize interpersonal universes. Little moments of privacy, of everyday “normality” are transformed into rituals that do not belong in any religion, rather in the sphere of inner psychological needs. Likening the artistic creation to a magical mirror, which through deformation and metamorphosis, deeper layers of what we really are come to light. In its poetic manner, Art reveals the invisible threads that link the world together.

 

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IRIS FOUSTERI (b.1981) is a multidisciplinary artist and dance teacher, based in Athens, Greece. With an educational background in graphic arts and dance, her work varies from choreography and performance art to digital art, illustration, video dance, poetry and video poetry.

 

She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance (2004) and was a member of Hellenic Dance Company from 2003-2010 with productions in Greece, Belgium, and France. She has taught Graham technique in the pre-professional and occasionally in the professional department of the Greek National School of Dance (2007-2012) and in the Professional Dance School “Rallou Manou”, where she choreographed the pieces “Breaking a Line” and “Kaleidoscope” (2012-2021). Since 2017, she teaches Graham technique in the Pre-professional & Professional Dance School of Athens Conservatoire. 

 

As a performer, Iris has collaborated with dance companies, choreographers/directors and visual artists including: La Lalie Cie, Omada Kentro, Arthrosis Dance Co., Analysis Dance Co., Sofia Pintzou (Greece/Germany), Harris Mandafounis, Vassia Zorbali, Anna Papathanasiou. 

  

Her work –both performative & visual- has been presented in various venues and festivals such as The Bebop Dance and Theater Festival (NY), Academia Romantica, Video Art Miden, Athens Digital Arts Festival – TĀCTUS, Athens Video Dance Project, Athens International Video Poetry Festival, Santorini Arts Factory (SAF), Akropoditi Dance Festival, Athens Conservatoire (in collaboration with the Museum of Cycladic Art), as associate movement director & dramaturgy consultant at ONC - SGT Onassis Foundation, Fabrica Art Space, e.t.c. In 2022, her piece “(A)UTOPIA 2.2: (a) being in a woman’s body” won the audience prize of the “Handmade & Recycled Theater Festival” performance contest.

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Occasionally, she works as an illustrator, writes and publishes poetic stories. Her last art book "ΛΙΚΟΥΙΝΤ" ("LIQUID") is released by ΘΗΕΛΑ publications.

 

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