Eva Fakatselis
Blood Lines
Prayer Trees
Nature Abstracts
Pacific Color Palettes
Self Portraits
Field Guide to Cancer
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Blood Lines
March 2024Campo, Nosara, Costa Rica
The work represented in this show is a catalogue of the artist’s year in 2023 with all its complexity and contradiction: light and shadow, pain and beauty, good fortune and unexpected challenge. This year held many unplanned twists and turns, and throughout, Fakatselis’ ability to turn to the creative process provided her with a lifeline across a tapestry of places and events: Nosara (Costa Rica); Greece; the United States; her father’s open-heart surgery; navigating her own health; and the tenderness of spending time with loved ones as well as being grateful for today. This work, especially the profound act of suturing and stitching, has allowed Fakatselis to suspend herself across the timeline of past and future, bringing forth a permeating sense of both nostalgia and anticipation for what comes next.
Beneath the Surface (Group Show)
June 2024Campo, Nosara, Costa Rica
These recent studies, presented as part of the group show Beneath the Surface, continue to explore the collective human archive of mythology and symbolism. Here, Fakatselis has printed images of her own hands across a period of two years using the cyanotype (sun print) method. These prints were made in Nosara, Costa Rica and Astypalaia, Greece from 2022—2024 and the different latitudes and times of day can be identified by the varied exposures of the prints. The symbolism of the hand is deep and rich, It follows that the soul is analogous to the hand, according to Aristotle. These compositions begin to build a modular system of gestures, exploring agency, connections and the mark-making hand of the artist, always relational to the spiritual realm and the golden thread of fate.
Echo
Sound installation by Eva Fakatselis and Petros TatsiopoulosMarch, 2024
Campo, Nosara, Costa Rica
Echo was created from echocardiogram recordings of Eva’s heart, tracking the velocity and flow of blood through her heart’s arteries and valves. This soundscape imagines the experience of hearing the flow of blood from the interior of the body. An abstract approach was taken to the organization of the frequencies - localizing them in the stereo field, along the golden ratio of rotation, which is a transcendental number. This generates the experience of a non-space, or at least no space that exists in reality - and proposes a spatial experience that is inner.
Petros Tatsiopoulos (b. 1993) studied partially Architecture (KIT Karlsruhe, Germany), Scenography and Exhibition Design (HfG Karlsruhe, Germany) and has a BA in Visual Arts (ACG Athens, Greece). He has participated in art projects such as theatre scenography (Baden State Theater), artist run spaces, group exhibitions and festivals (InSonic 2015). He has been preoccupied with sound art and sculpture since 2014 and this has been his main focus, through mathematical abstraction and a philosophical exploration on the nature of art and its place in social structures.
Special thanks to Alejandro Gutiérrez Breedy at Paradise Medical Services. Sound recordings by Alejandro Sauter.
Prayer Trees
April, 2023Campo, Nosara, Costa Rica
This latest body of work is shaped by Fakatselis’ interest in exploring multiple semantic systems including the mystical-allegorical language of alchemy and classical Greek mythology along with Christological symbolism drawn from Byzantine and early Renaissance painting and illuminated manuscripts. She is drawn to themes and allegories of light, shadow, transformation and metamorphosis from human to plant or animal form, along with the transmutation of the individual from the physical to the spiritual realm. The artist continues to derive deep inspiration from the potent natural world that surrounds her in Costa Rica, specifically the Plumeria tree as representative of a central icon, adorned with talismans for prayer and contemplation. The catalyst for the artist’s interest in creating this personal spiritual practice was born out of her transformative battle with cancer and a desire to reexamine herself, her cultural identity as a Greek-American living in Costa Rica, and what she seeks to invoke and manifest moving forward.
A Year Lived in Color
2023Campo, Nosara, Costa Rica
Pacific Color Palettes, Ocean Series, March 2021—March 2022. For this installation, the walls of a narrow passageway were papered with exhibition copies of 300 original works, creating an intimate and immersive experience wherein the individual daily color palettes could exist in the context of the entire year. These 300 watercolor palettes impart the artist’s experience of living throughout the year alongside the Pacific Ocean in Playa Guiones, in Nosara, Costa Rica. These works are part of an ongoing project where the artist generates a color palette as a memento of a specific time, place and feeling, reflecting on the experience of the moment and the passage of time.
Spirit of Place
March, 2022Campo, Nosara, Costa Rica
Created between 2021 and 2022, this body of work is deeply linked to the natural environment of Playa Guiones and the Campo property where the artist lives and works. Using natural elements encountered in daily life as the inspiration for her personal symbology, these paintings are iconographic and alchemic depictions of the artist’s challenges, her desire to live in harmony with nature and invocations for protection, health and love.
Though these paintings appear to be two-dimensional works, they should be perceived as three-dimensional objects with special attention paid to the physical placement of each. In Greek culture, a talismanic object would be hung in a home and/or by an icon, situated in such a way to summon protection and aid. These works, whether hanging in actuality from trees in the property’s gardens or depicting trees adorned with objects, are variations on this theme.
Pacific Color Palettes
2021Outpost, Nosara, Costa Rica
Pacific Color Palettes, Ocean Series, March 2021—March 2022. A project of daily meditations on color, place and the passage of time, reflecting the experience of living throughout the year alongside the Pacific Ocean in Playa Guiones, in Nosara, Costa Rica. Watercolor on Watercolor Paper and ranging in size from 6×4 in and 10×6 in.
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