ARTIST STATEMENT
Louisa Vergozisi (b. 1998, Volos, Greece) is a visual artist and photographer living and working between Maastricht and Athens.
Her practice and philosophy focuses on the silent side of the world, frequently inwoven with theological concepts and concerns. She explores the memory of the spiritual and landscape related scenery and its narratives in combination with historical feelings, like nostalgia and melancholia, which she recognises as essential elements of culture.
Growing up near a remote, small village in the countryside of Greece, raised in her a sensibility towards things that usually won't be found in the center of attention. Vergozisi asks to understand terms like "tradition", "culture" and "identity" as unstable, abstract and constantly evolving.
The media she uses include not only film, photography and installation, but also a combination of those, sometimes in an interactive way, making the boundaries of each fade out.
UPCOMING Photography Exhibition, 31/3 - 12/5 @ Café Zondag, Maastricht, NL
Projection of the short film "NOSTOS", 27/3 - 3/4 @ Maanplein Heerlen organised by Atelier In De Stad, Heerlen, NL
Education
2016 - 2020 Bachelor Fine Arts / ZUYD, Institute of Arts, Maastricht, NL
(with the support of Sofoklis Achillopoulos Foundation, Athens, GR)
2021 Developing Curatorial Concepts: Research & Creative Ideation
- Node Centre for Curatorial Studies Berlin
Solo Exhibitions
2022 When I dream, I see blue / Π=3,14 art-space, Athens, GR
2021 Φύλακες της Πίστης (Faithkeepers) - pop-up expo / Miliés, Pelion, GR
Group Exhibitions
2022 SWAP #5 / B32 artspace, Maastricht, NL
2021 Εκδοχές του Υποκειμένου (Versions of the Subjective) part of "The Talks"
by writer and psychiatrist Chloe Kolyri / Vyzitsa, Pelion, GR
2021 ALL INN - National Graduation Show / Het Hem, Zaandam, NL
2020 sub.archives X graduates / De Meldkamer, Maastricht, NL
2019 Museumnacht "Lost In Space" / Natuurhistorisch Museum, Maastricht, NL
2019 RADIO LIMA Circumstantial Radio #3 / Greylight Projects, Heerlen, NL
2018 Sound Workshop + group exhibition / FLACC, Genk, BE
Residences
2022 Stichting Destination Unknown / Heilige Hartkerk, Venlo, NL
Film Festivals
2021 Film Festival of Imagination - Overganszone / ENCI-Groeve, Maastricht, NL
2020 The One Minutes -"New Normalism" / 17th Reykjavík International Film Festival, ISL
& Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
2020 The Circle Works - Short Film Festival / Aachen, DE
Part of
2021 Video Power Nacht on L1 (Dutch television) - By Video Power / Maastricht,NL
2021 "Onkruid" - Poetry book by Lars Den Hertog / Maastricht, NL
2021 Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender - Dutch art calendar
2020 Overgangszone - Walking in Silence
Books
2021 "Το εξωκκλήσι του Αγίου Νικολάου στις Μηλιές Πηλίου και οι τοιχογραφίες του"
("The chapel of Sint Nicolas in Milies, Pelion and its murals")
with the support of Panayotis Zontanos - printed by Garyfallogianis Graphics Volos, GR