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Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos - She will burn in hell and she will take you with her, 2024 - 2.j
 



As a multicultural female artist, I am driven by the need to locate myself—to trace the shifting borders of my identity, to understand where I begin, where I end, and where I belong.

My Greek heritage, shaped by Antiquity and centuries of Ottoman presence, carries within it the tension of East and West. This layered history seeps into my practice, which unfolds between the Mediterranean and the Arab world. Rather than searching for fixed origins, I approach my work as an act of excavation and reconstruction: unearthing fragments of memory, weaving together disparate traditions, and questioning how a woman’s identity can emerge from—and transcend—what she inherits.

Through large-scale installations, textiles, and sculptural forms, I strive to build a new visual grammar where Greek myths converse with Sufi poetry, and the delicacy of Persian miniatures meets contemporary gestures. These hybrid worlds allow me to speak of myself not as a singular whole, but as a constellation of layers, traces, and transformations—an identity suspended between geographies, temporalities, and states of being.
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  APICK gallery, Turin, IT  

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  DARB1718, Cairo, EG  

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  Salah ad-Din Citadel, Cairo, EG  

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  The Warehouse, Cairo, EG  

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  GETXOPHOTO, Bilbao, SP  

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  Fondation Benetton, Treviso, IT  

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  Institut Francais, Athens, GR  

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  BAR, Beirut, LB  

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  Mohsen gallery, Tehran, IR  

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  Time Museum, Beijing, CN  

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  Galerie Mansart, Paris, FR  

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  Parasol Project, New York, USA  

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  Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK  

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  Spring Break, New York, USA  

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