ARIANA PAPEDEMETROPOLOUS

Her video work ‘Baby Alone in Babylon’ is featured in this exhibition which showcases the artist floating in a bed in the sea. Filmed on location in Greece, the artist wanders ungoverned at the mercy of the waves and the wind. Often drawing inspiration from the deep sea and the creatures that inhabit it, real or mythological including sea shells and fish, in this film, the artist resembles a Nereid, the sea nymph often associated with the Aegean Sea.

Ariana Papademetropolous who may be best known for her gorgeously rendered seductive oil paintings of surreal dreamscapes with unicorns, sea creatures, shells and eerie figures often plays with the absence and presence of the body in these highly evocative settings. Her work consistently utilizes imagery from the sea and the natural world, often hybridizing conch shells, snails, unicorns or crystals with elements of the human body, there is a deeply erotic sensuality to her paintings as well as a surreal use of imaginary creatures that seem to push the potential of the human body.