Eleni Gkinosati

Eleni Gkinosati (b. 1990, Athens, Greece) lives and works in Athens, Greece. She enrolled in the Athens School of Fine Arts, where she obtained a Master’s Degree in painting (2009), and then she attended a one-year course in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid  (2013). She received a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Kingston University of London (2018) Through her work, she aims to the subversion of the concept of the typical idea of painting and is constantly searching for new ways of interpretation. She meticulously explores the genre of painting as developed in the history of art and questions the power of representation nowadays. Using «gesture» in the medium of painting today is a unique challenge to historical amnesia and the new language defined by digital iconography. By contemplating the legacy of abstract painting, she gives her works a hallucinatory glow and a form of aggression. This is achieved superbly through the spontaneous brushstrokes, the dramatic drops of colour, the monumental sizes and the boundaries of the surface itself. The vast painting areas and the gestural traces on the surfaces seem to witness an effort to reconstruct various references in the present time and wish to examine the emergence of a world of forgotten and repressed memories. Broken, subjective colour codes and patterns interweave the conjugation between the past and the present. The canvas becomes an uncharted area within which resides herself and her movements. The reality of her paintings is a subjective affair, remaining open to observers. Her stroke eliminates the truth of the white canvas and brings up new issues unravelled behind the wide range of the media.