Athena Petra Tasiopoulos

Athena Petra Tasiopoulos is a mixed media collage artist and photographer. Her work examines our collective mental and emotional blueprints. Through her practice, she explores the push and pull of interconnectedness and the delicate nature of equilibrium. 

Working with recycled and found vintage papers embedded beneath layers of encaustic beeswax, Tasiopoulos creates intricate compositions that bring together material history and contemporary visual language. The translucent wax surface softens, saturates, and transforms the underlying imagery, allowing muted colors and fragments of printed material to emerge with a subtle luminosity. The resulting works invite close examination, drawing attention to the physical qualities of the materials and the layered histories they contain.

Repetitive patterns and gestural marks, carved and scraped into the wax, reveal the evidence of the artist's hand and embrace the inherent irregularities of the creative process. These interventions emphasize the vulnerability of both image and material, establishing a dialogue between structure and imperfection, permanence and impermanence.