Korallia Stergides
Korallia Stergides
Caring Coot, 2020
Silver Gelatin handprint from 35 mm negative
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Printed Edition of 5 + 2 AP
Signed, numbered and dated by the artist
About this Work
Caring Coot was taken in the artist's childhood park, Regent’s Park, during spring, in the first lockdown of the pandemic. The photograph is part of a series of observations exploring the nurturing behaviours of birds and interspecies relationships: an extension to her ongoing documentation of these experiences at home. The image focuses on a mother Coot diving for twigs to build a nest for her newborns. This is the artist’s first photographic print, initiating her experiments in analogue photographic processes.
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About Korallia Stergides
Korallia Stergides is an Interdisciplinary artist based in London and Cyprus. She graduated in BA Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins, UAL, in 2016, and is currently undertaking an MFA in Fine Art Media at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Recent exhibitions include at APT Gallery, London, Saatchi Gallery, London, HAUS, Athens, and VCAM, Philadelphia. Stergides has collaborated with, among others, the ICA, London, the British Film Institute, London, Chisenhale Gallery, London, BBC, Siobhan Davies Dance, the Natural History Museum, London, and the Watermill Center, New York.
Through her work, Stergides reimagines the intimacy of “home”, and inter-species relationships. She explores the vital politics of care in an interdependent world, and emphasises nonhuman agencies, developing various characters to “remythologise”
autobiographical narratives. These enquiries are explored by interweaving multiple media: performance, installation, object making and sculpture, printmaking, photography, film, poetry and sound. Across these forms, the artist invites the audience to experience a transformation. Being the daughter of a soldier and refugee from Famagusta in Cyprus in 1974, this experience instigated an abstracted relationship to Stergides’s sense of home. She has used this notion of disconnection and displacement as a method of organising and exploring narratives in her work. The core of her most recent work explores ephemerality, vulnerability and touch using sensitivity and collective gestures. She aims to raise awareness and accessibility of dithering anthropocentric events by merging myth and fact, attempting to forecast tomorrow’s future, and reevaluating our understanding of the natural world.
Education
MFA Fine Art Media, Slade School ofArt, University College London, London - 2018 –2021
BA Honours Performance Design & Practice Central Saint Martins, London - 2013 –2016 (Disctinction) & Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Central Saint Martins, London - 2012 –2013 (Distinction)
Awards and Short list
Shortlisted Film Whale For An Ear, 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, DE - 2018
Shortlisted Physical Literacy & When Foucault Gave Me Flowers, The Bloomberg New Contemporaries, UK - 2017
Won Deans Award for Excellence, Central Saint Martins, BA Hons, Performance Design & Practice, London, UK - 2016
Shortlisted How to Sit Correctly, The Place, Dance Theatre, London, UK - July 2015
Won The Green Initiative Award for Sustainability in Art & Design, Central Saint Martins, London, UK - 2013
Residencies & Programs, Workshops
Hosted Planetary Scales Workshop, Choreography Lab, Siobhan Davies Dance, London, UK - October 29th 2019
BOW Dance House Residency, Limassol, CY - September - October 2019
Stop Play Record, Film in partnership with the ICA, Chisenhale Gallery & Channel 4, London UK, March 2017Synthetic Ecology, ONCA Gallery, Brighton, UK, 31st August - 2 September 2017
The Watermill Centre Summer Program, New York, USA, July -August 2016
Selected Live Performance
Distance From Earth To Sun, Phytorio CY, Bloomsbury Theatre, Barbican Arts, Goldsmiths CCA, UK, 2019-Present
Deep Love Celestial Tours: Haverford, VCAM Centre, Philadelphia, USA, February 6 -March 6, 2020
Low Roaming Cloud, Plants Speak...Symposium, Haus Athens, Slade Interim Show, September 2019
Deep Love City Tours: Nicosia, KYPRIA International Festival CY, Nicosia, CY, September 2019
Deep Love On Air: Love Me Tender, Resonance FM,London, UK, 2nd May 2019
Deep Love Auctions: Bags of Time, Toynbee Studios, MK Arts Centre, Siobhan Davies Dance, UK, April –March 2019
Deep Love Bubbles Of Time & Subterranean Bingo, Well Projects, Margate, UK, June 7th -June 22nd 2019
Deep Love Sales: Hands Of Time,, The Arch, Low Entertainment, London UK, 26th June -1st July ,2018
2053: A Living Museum, TATE, Liverpool UK, February 2016
Selected Screenings
Whale For An Ear, Playback Tour, Swiss Church, Whitechapel Gallery, Chisenhale Gallery, Genesis, 2017 – Present
The Thing, BFI Future Film Festival, Live Music by The London Sinfonietta Orchestra, BFI, London, UK - Dec2014
Physical Literacy, The Infraordinary, Adobe Gallery, San Francisco, USA, October 2016
Selected Solo/Group Exhibitions
I’m An Ephemeral Bubble Of Time Waiting To Be Popped, Well Projects, Margate, UK, June 2019
London Grads Now, The Saatchi Gallery, London,UK, 2nd -11th October 2020
Re-Enchanted Matter, APT Gallery, London,UK, 3rd -14th September 2020
HAUS Athens, Athens,GR, December 5th 2019 -January 5th 2020
vida digna de ser vivida, Phytorio, December 21st 2019 -January 22nd 2020, Nicosia, CY, December 2020
Online Commissions
And oh those eyes...saturated (D-S). ‘Springwatch’, The Cyprus High Commission, The London,UK, April 2020
Digital Residency,Arts Catalyst,London, UK, October - November 2017
Selected Press
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/digital-residencies-1144373
http://neoprisme.com/django-django-x-korallia-stergides-born-under-saturn/
Solo Presentation
FORMWORKS Program, Thkio Palies, Nicosia, CY, December 16th 2020-January 2021