Nikomachi Karakostanoglou
ABOUT
Nikomachi Karakostanoglou lives and works in Athens. The main object of her research is materiality and the narratives or stories it entails and constructs. Her work utilizes the morphological and semantic capacities of a wide range of aesthetic categories—in situ installations, sculptures, watercolors, and videos—proposing a spatial and experiential condition around themes such as the relationship of human beings with nature, the reuse of things and their lives in the present, folk history, gender politics, mysticism and magic, spirituality, and sensuality.
For this Art Rug Projects collaboration, the artist has created 6 silk carpets inspired by the elements of light and water. Her visual language becomes more tactile through weaving, yet retains its poetic nature. The surface of the carpet gains an atmospheric quality. The silk, with its natural luster and interaction with light, impressively conveys the transparencies, shifts, and subtle vibrations in her pieces. Brushstrokes become silk fibers, color transitions evoke water, and the design becomes a field of touch and light, shimmering and iridescent. Thus, the materiality of the woven carpet allows the viewer to see, feel, and touch an image that continuously transforms, depending on the light and perspective.
BIO
Nikomachi Karakostanoglou was born and raised in Athens. She studied Business Administration at the Athens University of Economics and Business Administration, Public Art (BA) at Chelsea College of Arts and Fine Art: Sculpture (BA, Hons) at Wimbledon College of Arts. Since 2017 she has been working exclusively on her drawings and sculptures, challenging herself through the scale of the works and materials she has collected during her travels in Asia. In 2023, commissioned by the Onassis Foundation’s Onassis House, she realized two outdoor sculptures, “Drop of Knowledge” and “Roush”. She has held solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her works are in private collections, the collection of MOMus, the Benaki Museum and the collection of the Onassis Foundation.
