Eleni Zervou

Eleni Zervou (b. Athens, 1994) is a Visual Artist based in London. She completed her BA in Sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University of Istanbul and recently graduated from Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art with the support of I. Latsis Postgraduate Scholarship.
Her multidisciplinary practice involves world-making and storytelling via comics, film, installations, and performance; creating seductive landscapes of horror, using her own mythological vocabulary.
Eleni’s work has been shown in exhibitions and performances in Greece, Italy, Turkey, Germany, and the UK, at various venues including: Saatchi Gallery – London, Benaki Museum -Athens, B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation -Athens, Athens Conservatoire (Documenta14), Allouche Benias Gallery -Athens, Fabrica del Vapore in Milan (BCJEM17), Santral Istanbul, Studio-X Istanbul and Documenta Halle in Kassel(Documenta14).

PROJECT

Eleni’s work is structured around the symbolic language of the weavers in order to explore palimpsest narratives of the island and the ways in which contemporary art practice can negotiate issues of identity and tradition in collaboration with local communities. At the same time, her work attempts to highlight the presence of the female voice as it is expressed through the symbolic language of the traditional weavers of Tinos.