11 Jun Maria Salouvardou
Maria Salouvardou
ART
Threads of Psyche
Threads of Psyche are presented in 4 female figures/costumes connected through the use of threads and ritual weaving with mantras to meditate on vulnerability and the desire to transcend fear :
The black figure has a golden womb, the spiralling journey of the soul / vital force together with the Ankh seal for eternal life and fertility, knitted with gold threads (gold as colour of power and the divine) resembling a snake aiming to bring fertility.
The red figure is a symbol of personal or social liberation, a passage from confined darkness towards the bright release in a green garden.
The white female body has wings, as an angel or a bird. Knitted with threads of silk for both fragility and strength. A heart-bird symbolises the vital need for awareness and action while being reminded of fragility.
The second black costume is part cage, part sanctuary, with fragments of glass, mirrors, and porcelain, as delicate traces of memory and resilience in a dream language. Hand-knitted messages are flowing, woven with pieces of worn tights, red and black threads, all emblems of resistance, fragility, and transformation.
Bio
Maria Salouvardou is an interdisciplinary, Berlin based, Artist combining the creation of costumes and scenography with performing Art, as vivid installations of female bodies/costumes /shoes accompanied by original music or video. The freedom of expression of women, her mythologies and her shifting place in the world, is a central theme in her Art. She is a weaver of threads symbolizing women’s lives. In the poetry-inspired performances her voice resonates through needles, threads, papers, wires, music and words, crafting a narrative through sculpture, costume, performance and scenography. Her poetic universes blend in ritual the divine and the earthly. Her purpose is immersing the people in her dreams with a space to dive in. She upcycles, restructures and composes with principal environmental focus, experimenting on new techniques for “paper making” and “textile art”. She participates in various exhibitions and performs internationally, spreading her messages deeply concerned with the inequalities, in a world fraught with patriarchy, conflict and heedless consumerism.
