(1991, Greece)
Lives and works in Athens
(Greece)
Vasilis Papageorgiou
Vasilis Papageorgiou’s practice explores togetherness, communication, and solitude, while questioning how leisure manifests in everyday life. He examines the individual’s place within the collective, highlighting the tensions and frictions that arise. His installations combine sculptures, drawings, metal structures, and spatial interventions, forming a visual language imbued with poetry. Through a refined aesthetic, he conveys ideas and emotions, revealing the depth of the ordinary. By revaluing overlooked objects, he reconfigures the insignificant and creates immersive atmospheres. Papageorgiou offers sensitive forms of resistance to the obsession with productivity, celebrating stillness, calm, and solitude. In a world that tends to marginalize these essential needs, his work invites us to reconsider their place within a society in constant motion.
Vasilis Papageorgiou’s Ceramics Sunset series captures the fleeting moment of twilight, merging the handcrafted beauty of ceramics with the poetry of the sunset. Each piece, shaped from clay, is meticulously colored and molded to hold the emotional weight of this moment, borrowing its title from the exact time the sun sets on the day of its completion. Thus, each work refers to two distinct sunsets: the one observed and the one integrated into the act of creation. The orange, golden, and red tones, translated into vitrified glazes, evoke both the warmth of light and the coolness of shadow. The texture of the ceramics, sometimes rough, sometimes smooth, plays a crucial role in the perception of light, adding a sensory and tactile depth to the visual experience. Papageorgiou transforms ceramics into a visual and poetic language, a meditation on light, the passage of time, and the beauty of the ephemeral. The artist succeeds in capturing the dynamism of the setting sun, while reflecting the fragility and intensity of the present moment. Each piece becomes an inner landscape, suspended between brilliance and disappearance.
