Maria Salouvardou
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Maria Salouvardou

I am an interdisciplinary Berlin-based artist, creating for the last 10 years sculptural installations of female bodies/costumes or shoes, combining scenography and performing art, with original music or video.

After attaining an Economics degree, I studied Acting (Vasilis Diamantopoulos and Akis Davis Theatre Schools), Costume design and Scenography (Micro Polytechneio), History of Art (Spanish Spoudastirio) and History of B&W Photography (PhotoCircle).

I was brought up in a conservative, oppressive, male-dominated family and society. This turned my focus on feminine energy, freedom of expression, female mythologies and our shifting place in the world. Knitting and embroidery become a ritual way to process unpleasant memories, traumatic experiences, and negative emotions in each story. I am a weaver, not only of threads but also of women's lives with the desire to overcome fear and achieve women's freedom on a personal or social level. Two of my recent projects focus either on femicides "No longer Hurt" or underage girls in enslaved service roles "Psychokores".

I create my own materials from used paper bags and plastic waste, using paper and 'textile art' techniques. The installations feature broken cables, threads, wires, papers, needles, glue, brushes, discarded plastics, broken toys, abandoned technology and more. My project "Dead Land", addressing Earth's burden from our plastics, has travelled from the Byzantine Baths of Thessaloniki to Berlin and to Barcelona, as the Drap Art Sustainability Festival main opening performance. In my poetry-inspired installation series visitors can experience concomitant audio voice narration, sounds, music with video projections or performance.

In my performances, conceptual goddesses or priestesses could be envisaged as messengers; in others, mortal women personify their stories with the poems—speaking to the public through threads that connect the installations like a web. My sculptures symbolise women's resilience, strength and beauty as a reply to a world strangled with inequalities, patriarchy, conflict and heedless consumerism.

maria EXHIBITIONS and PERFORMANCES
  • 2015 performance in Gallery 11 for "Landscape Metropolis" Exhibition, Berlin
  • 2006-2010, performing and working as costume and set designer as part of the team LSD, Athens.
PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS
  • 2024 November, Official selection of the Film Poetry "the harp of vocal cords", Cabe Cave, Associacao Cultural, Portugal.
  • 2024 October, Official selection of the Film Poetry "the harp of vocal cords", Festival Fotogenia, Mexico City.
  • 2024 September, Award best Video Poetry "the harp of vocal cords", Hombres Videopoesia, Italy.
  • 2024 May, Official selection of the Film Poetry "the harp of vocal cords", Bloomsday Film Festival,Dublin.
  • 2024 April, Official selection of the Film Poetry "the harp of vocal cords", International Video Poetry Festival, Athens
  • 2023 November, Feline Lang's gothic novel "The Dollhouse" was published, featuring my artworks as the main characters of the fairy-tale, Berlin.
  • 2023 April, Official selection of my short film "Into my Garden come", International Video Poetry Festival, Athens
  • 2022 December, Award for my short film "Into my Garden come" at Bliss333 Poetry Festival, Colorado.
FILM / COLLABORATIONS
  • 2025 January-March ,Performance, Costume design and Installation for the Poetry film "Algorithm", Berlin.
  • 2024 March – April, Performance, Costume design and Installation for the Poetry film "Whiteweight", Berlin.
  • 2023 November, Performance, Costume-Set design and co-Direction for the Film Poetry "The Harp of ocal Cords", Berlin.
  • 2021 winter, Costume and Set design for the film "Goddess, Garbage & Gewalt", Berlin.
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