Artwork: Perpetual Dream Machine (2021, custom-fabricated metal components, motorised system, electrical circuit, PVC sheets, iPad screen, performance / Umetniško delo: Perpetualni sanjski stroj (2021, po meri izdelane kovinske komponente, motoriziran sistem, električni tokokrog, PVC plošče, iPad zaslon, performans)
Georgiou's transdisciplinary practice explores performance, digital media, immersive installations, sound, and custom machinery, ranging from self-sustaining apparatuses to wearable cyber prostheses. The Perpetual Dream Machine is an absurd, self-reflexive mechanism that endlessly strives toward the unreachable. Its spiral-like evolving image symbolises an immaterial ideal that is forever out of reach, while its wings, meant to elevate the wearer, remain ineffective. Through an immersive performance, the work becomes activated, embodying the impossibility of completion yet fueling perpetual evolution.
Domenika Georgiou, born in 1999 in Limassol, Cyprus, is a multidisciplinary artist. She is pursuing a Master's in ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Conservatory in The Hague. In 2023, she earned a BFA in Painting from the Academia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. Her work has been presented across Europe in group shows in experimental and gallery settings, including Kupfer Gallery in London, Bim Milano, Alt_R Enclave Projects in London, Fabrica del Vapore in Milan, etc. She has also participated in many off-site exhibitions, art fairs and residencies.
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Transdisciplinarna praksa Domenike Georgiou raziskuje performans, digitalne medije, instalacije, zvok in stroje, izdelane po meri, od samostojnih aparatov do nosljivih kibernetskih protez. Perpetualni sanjski stroj je absurden, samorefleksiven mehanizem, ki v neskončnost stremi k nedosegljivemu. Njegova spiralno razvijajoča se podoba simbolizira nematerialni, večno nedosegljivi ideal, medtem ko njegova krila, ki naj bi dvignila osebo, ki jo nosi, ostajajo nedelujoča. Delo se aktivira skoz performans, uteleša nezmožnost dokončanja, obenem pa spodbuja perpetualno evolucijo.
Domenika Georgiou, rojena leta 1999 v Limassolu na Cipru, je multidisciplinarna umetnica. Na Kraljevi akademiji za umetnost in Konservatoriju v Haagu opravlja magistrski študij ArtScience. Leta 2023 je diplomirala iz slikarstva na Akademiji lepih umetnosti Brera v Milanu. Njeno delo je bilo predstavljeno po Evropi na skupinskih razstavah, v eksperimentalnih in galerijskih okoljih, vključno z Galerijo Kupfer v Londonu, Bim v Milanu, Alt_R Enclave Projects v Londonu, v Fabrici del Vapore v Milanu itd. Sodelovala je tudi na številnih drugih razstavah, umetniških sejmih in rezidencah.