Chrissa Tsovilli

Chrissa Tsovilli

Historia

Chrissa Tsovili was born in 1977 in Athens. She graduated in painting from Thessalonikis National School of Fine Arts and continued with postgraduate studies in photography at "La Cambre", School of Fine Arts in Brussels. At the same time, she attended dance-staging seminars "Physical dance" and interactive stage design "Digital stage". Working within video-art, she has developed long-term collaborations with music composers such as Giorgos Koumentakis, Giorgos Emmanouil Lazaridis, Lorenzo Ferrero, Philippo del Corno, piano soloist Emmanuel Arciulli and the band "The Transcription Ensemble" for which she created live video-art shows for their concerts. The themes and subjects of her work are inspired by events and visual representations that merge History of Art with the socio-political course of humanity. Such concepts are seen from a perspective of cynicism and are embodied within an aesthetic of unrealistic and fairytale elements. This creates a field of apprehension as well as of contradiction that points towards a transcendental view of reality, on the one hand, while revealing a critical attitude towards the absurdity of modern historicity.

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Chrissa Tsovilli

Películas

Painting Pain
Painting Pain
Director of Photography
The film approaches the work of the Greek artist Nikos Koniaris. The particular way in which the painter depicts human suffering is presented through a film - a hybrid of real recording and directed material. The grief, the sick body, is reflected in self portraits, portraits of dying strangers and paintings of dead models. The paintings, apart from his work, also express a different version of himself. All together contribute to the depiction of man as a "garment of pain".