Athena Papadopoulos creates sculptural and linguistic environments which play out the characters and stereotypes of femininity with their tools of self-image creation. Connoting the practice of self-augmentation – of ‘dolling oneself up’ – Papadopoulos forms her works through layering material excess superimposed with personal and found imagery. Utilizing a list of cosmetic, medicinal, and consumable ingredients, Papadopoulos stains fabrics with red wine, lipstick, hair dyes, Pepto Bismol and self-tanner, among other substances commodified, coded and marketed towards certain consumer archetypes of femininity. Her private photographic archives are populated by the tragic and glorious muses from her own youth, whose linguistic practices, bodily treatments, anxieties and desires materialise in Papadopolous’s work.

Athena Papadopoulos's unique, virtual group studio visit will run approximately one hour.