Kalamatiano Drawing

Chryssafenia is a multi-local artist, curator and art historian who spends her time in Illinois, Greece and Ecuador. She works in 2D, 3D, collage, installation and performance,joining artist collectivas with gusto and often collaborating with fashion designers, fiber artists, weavers, musicians and dancers. Her themes include cross-dressing, alchemy, performativity, shamanism, interstice, the body, disability studies, semiotics,border and Latino studies, as well as sacred stories. Her current work explores magical symbols, hierophanies, and how pain mitigates or intensifies these experiences. Ultimately, exploring and trying to find what inhabits the cusp. Another significant area of focus is on how fashion has been used in art to navigate, explore and explosively disrupt the status quo. Personal dramaturgy performed via sartorialism is examined as well. the role of curator, in the region of Mani in southern Greece,where a floating art exhibit Re:Think, an exhibit tackling consumerism, found art and illegal dumping in the region of Maratholaka.