Chatziioannidis, Stavros

Little is in our day-to-day lives that changes truly, thus we tend to take a more linear approach to things. The sun rises, the sun sets. Twenty-four hours. Week after week, everything is but a line of parameters with a start and an end and with just a few standpoints in between. Meanwhile, the world shifts at an fathomable rate and we are unable to do anything but observe the tide that passes over us. With the effects of technological advancement being stronger than ever we tend to become more passive, homogeneous. All while society demands of us to be successful in multiple levels, and, social media, simultaneously, allows us to shape how our identity appears at a whim. How is our uniqueness affected? Where is our true self in all this? What is left of our inner child? My prime purpose as an artist is to raise questions like the above. Through a distortion of form my aim is to create a visual juxtaposition between the image and the soul, a deform.