Miltos Michailidis
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STATEMENT
My artistic and research work is a combination of installations and painting. The inspiration for the creation of artistic images often comes from an archive of various documents, photos and objects. Various “things” collected throughout the years compose my personal memory tank. From my standpoint, making art is a visual game of memory which sets off from the premise that memory itself is an interpretation rather than a hard fact and hence it can be distorted. Like an explorer of a new era, I closely elaborate on icons and other various “stolen” information creating environments and paintings that comment on how today’s individual accumulates facts and draws conclusions regarding the world that surrounds each of us. Every exhibition should also be introduced as a different page of my “artistic” diary, like a mechanism that helps memory stay alive. “I remember therefore I am” could be a motto describing, in concise fashion, the whole body of my work.    
 
BIO
Miltos Michailidis (b. -1971 Athens, Greece) studied at Accademia di belle Arti di Brera in Milan. He has done eight solo exhibitions so far in Greece, Italy and Spain. He has also participated in many group exhibitions and art-fairs in Greece and abroad. His artistic work is a combination between painting and installations while references to today’s era, concepts such as personal and collective memory but also the events of everyday life are often a source of artistic study and inspiration for many of his works. In 2023, he presented a solo exhibition in a.antonopoulou.art gallery entitled 'OZ – Images from the world'.