She of the Jade Skirt

The project She of the Jade Skirt consists of sculptures as well as a series of monotypes and in-depth reliefs. The works were developed during the artist-in-residence program in Mexico City with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum (March–June 2018) and presented as a cohesive body of work within the studio residency at MANA Contemporary in the USA (October 2018 – March 2019). Examining the evolution of Mexico City in relation to water, She of the Jade Skirt forms a narrative that begins with the special fact that the pre-Columbian city, which was founded on an extensive system of lakes, is now gradually sinking. The title refers to Chalchiuhtlicue, the female deity of rivers and childbirth, which in Aztec cosmology represents water as a vital source but also as a representation in the form of floods. The sculptures draw morphological references from pre-Columbian maps as well as from the very architectural reality of the capital. Respectively, the materialities of the works bear environmental symbols, "capturing" the gradual fluctuations and transformations of the landscape from the liquid to the dry and from the natural to the anthropogenic. She of the Jade Skirt was associated with a broader ecofeminist approach, pursuing a fantastic and tangible treatise on the relationship between water, urban overdevelopment and climate change.

Inspire Prize 2021, MOMus—The Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki