Christine Palamidessi

Sculpture

studio: 6 Vernon Street, #2
email : christine@palamidessi.com
web : www.palamidessi.com
instagram : @palamidessi.art

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Statement

I am a figurative artist and my work explores ideas of cultural fragmentation as portrayed in myth, bodies, language and artifacts. I take imprints or develop visuals based on the fragmentations and re-assemble. I work in a wide range of media--sculpture, printmaking, writing, installation. A lot of my work looks at the history of women. I like to call it archeomythological art.

My work with fragmentation is inspired by my lifelong fascination with how pieces of anything become like dividing cells that just want to keep on living, often morphing into something ‘other’ or duplicating ‘the same.’ I believe this became my life calling because of the cultural fragmentations in my family or origin. Fragmentations that I always wanted to repair, understand better, or tear away from. 

I enjoy working with paper--molding it, tearing it, compressing it, adding hardening agents to it, painting on it, writing on it. Over the years I have been fortunate to have studied with custodians of traditional mask making and cartapesta statuary in Italy.