The Benaki Museum Shop presents Iosifina Kosma’s latest collection “Flows” at the Ghika Gallery Shop, as part of the series "Kriezotou 3 window. An artist exhibits”.

Iosifina Kosma discovered her love for clay at a very young age and over the years she has experimented with a variety of different techniques and styles. A critical element throughout her work has always been the curve. The curve is the first shape Iosifina instinctively creates when she holds a piece of clay. She considers the moment of inspiration a blessing and refrains from overanalysing it, allowing the process of creation itself to guide her. For her latest line of artworks, Iosifina has been using her hands to create abstract, asymmetrical, sculptural forms. Working with stoneware clay, she crafts her artworks piece by piece and then connects all the parts together to bring her vision to life.

«Μy work with clay has always been related to the flow of a curve or a cavity on which the viewer's eye constantly slides. In the series of works entitled "Flows", of which the selected artworks are part, I wanted to create organic forms that reflect a sense of 'being'.

Although inspired by nature, I am not interested in schematically capturing something specific, animate or inanimate, to transfer to clay the form of a natural object. I wish to convey feelings of fullness, balance, and harmony. I want the void balancing the complete, the inside becoming the outside, the concave conversing with the convex, the luminous succeeding the dark. Depending on the ever-changing perspective, sometimes they welcome and host, sometimes they eliminate, absorb, and disappear. The aggregation of these contradictions is what defines the very complex nature of the human."

 

Opening: 02.06.2022, 19:00

Duration: 02.06.2022-06.07.2022

The Ghika Gallery, 3 Kriezotou St.