Yorgos Papafigos, a cross-media artist from Greece explores the increasing use of technologies and how these decompose and hybridise human notion. The artist focuses on the digital era and how immateriality affects our perception of the real world through digital content and computer-generated images. Solid and virtual works seeks to portray and explore emotional crisis and isolation.
Yorgos Papafigos (born 1989 in Larisa, Greece) graduated from the Thessaloniki School of Fine Arts Faculty of painting and Royal College of Arts - Moving Image in London. He has presented solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums such as Gossamer Fog, London (2019); Kappatos Gallery, solo show, Athens (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, screening (2019); ARTECITYA - ART SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL (2017); 25th Drawing Show at Boston Centre for the Arts, Mills Gallery,US (2017); CICA Museum, South Korea (2017); The right to be human Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art- Goethe institute (2017); The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennial (2017); Error in calculation, Cyber Art Space (cyberartspace.net), (2015); State Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki (2015).
Activities
Media Art, Movie, Fine Art
Awards
Biography
Yorgos Papafigos, a cross-media artist from Greece explores the increasing use of technologies and how these decompose and hybridise human notion. The artist focuses on the digital era and how immateriality affects our perception of the real world through digital content and computer- generated images. Solid and virtual works seeks to portray and explore emotional crisis and isolation.
Yorgos Papafigos (born 1989 in Larisa, Greece) graduated from the Thessaloniki School of Fine Arts Faculty of painting and Royal College of Arts - Moving Image in London. He has presented solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums such as Gossamer Fog, London (2019); Kappatos Gallery, solo show, Athens (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, screening (2019); ARTECITYA - ART SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL (2017); 25th Drawing Show at Boston Centre for the Arts, Mills Gallery, US (2017); CICA Museum, South Korea (2017); The right to be human Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art- Goethe institute (2017); The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennial (2017); Error in calculation, Cyber Art Space (cyberartspace.net), (2015); State Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki (2015).
Language
English
Place
ATHENS / LONDON
