Karolina Krasouli
Pattern (Νοs. 1–3, 5–9, 11–14), 2023
Coloured pencil on paper, 23.5 × 16.5 cm each
Courtesy of the artist and Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki
In Karolina Krasouli’s art practice, painting, text, writing, and assembling comprise the vocabulary that collectively shapes and structures her language. The artist invokes a set (or, more accurately, a unit) of mechanisms where meanings and senses are ‘(re)inscribed’. The result emerges through a lengthy process. Her work Pattern (Νοs. 1–3, 5–9, 11–14) (2023) unfolds as a drawing in coloured pencils. The series of drawings visualises the concept of the frame narrative abstractly, as the artist’s pictures can be seen and read as ‘spaces’ infiltrating one another. Krasouli invents an alternative mode of communication and perception while inducting us into unprecedented yet familiar mental states. The work attempts to introduce the viewer/reader to Krasouli’s act of painting as a technique while also hoping to reintroduce it to us as a perception.
Biography
Karolina Krasouli is a visual artist living and working in Athens. In her artistic process, painting, text, and writing, as well as assembling, are the vocabulary that collectively shapes and structures her language. Following her studies in Clinical Psychology in Greece and France, she obtained a Master’s in Fine Arts at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 2014. In 2015, she co-founded Alfabeto, a group for theoretical and practical research on the concept of transmission in art, through talks and exhibitions at the French Academy in Rome. That same year, she received a two-year fellowship for a residency at the Cité des arts in Paris. In 2019, she received the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship from ARTWORKS. In 2022, she was artist-in-residence at the Delfina Foundation in London. She has participated in various exhibitions in Greece and internationally.
ALL WORKS
- Phantom Investigations (Giannis Delagrammatikas, Ino Varvariti). Each Relation Belongs to Other Relations
- Chryssa. From the Newspaper Book
- Chryssa. From the Newspaper Book
- Nausica Pastra. Analogiques
- Nausica Pastra. Synectron–Square–Circle
- Bia Davou. Pillars and Clouds, Hypothetical Intervention in the Pillars of Olympic Zeus
- Bia Davou. Serial Structures 2 – Odyssey
- Christina Mitrentse. European Union – Bookscape XIV
- Christina Mitrentse. Home is the Net – Bookscape VI
- Karolina Krasouli. Pattern (Νοs. 1–3, 5–9, 11–14)
- Karolina Krasouli. How to Remember (Plans)
- Chrysanthi Koumianaki. When the Performance Ends
- Maria Varela. Rugs of Life
