{"id":51354,"date":"2023-06-26T09:41:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T06:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artgrid.gr\/?page_id=51354"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:57:53","slug":"chryssoula-demagou","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artgrid.gr\/en\/chryssoula-demagou\/","title":{"rendered":"Chryssoula Demagou"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Chrysoula Demagou is a painter. She was born and raised in Athens, where she lives and works to this day. She is a graduate of the Department of Political Science at Panteion University of Athens, while she also studied French language and culture at the Institut Fran\u00e7ais de Gr\u00e8ce. She pursued long-term private studies in art and worked for several years as an artistic collaborator with Club M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e.<\/p>

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I paint scenes in which people are never alone, even when they appear to be. Every body is open, inhabited by others, by memories, by actions that have taken place or are about to take place. The figures carry within them small narratives that intertwine and create a larger, more complex story.<\/p>

The woman is almost always at the centre of these scenes. She is the point where tension gathers. Relationships, desires, and conflicts are inscribed on her. Her body functions as a space into which others enter, leave traces, and are transformed. It is there that it becomes most evident how relationships are built, how they exert force, how they wear down, and how they persist.<\/p>

The relationships that concern me have weight. They contain attraction, dependency, control, desire, and rejection. These elements coexist within the same image, without being separated. The figures touch, hold, press against one another, at times support and at times collapse into one another. There is always a sense that something is transmitted from one to the other, something that changes them both.<\/p>

The animals, objects, and small scenes that appear within or around the bodies function as extensions of these states. They are not decorative. They are parts of the same narrative. A fish, a bird, a small human body may carry an action, a memory, or a desire that cannot be expressed otherwise. Everything is connected, everything has a place within the same system.<\/p>

I use colour to sustain the intensity and the tension within the image. Strong reds, deep blacks, and clear yellows and blues create contrasts, the drawing is direct, without correction, in order to preserve the sense of the moment. The figures are distorted because this reveals more clearly the condition in which they exist. These images speak about the way people connect and become bound within an environment that exerts pressure on them. Relationships become spaces where roles are reproduced, limits are imposed, and contact is sought. This is what I aim to show, a condition in progress, where nothing is innocent and nothing remains untouched.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Type<\/strong>: Painting<\/p>

Medium<\/strong>: Oil, acrylic on canvas<\/p>

Style<\/strong>: Expressionism, Narrative Surrealism, kitsch with elements of Art Brut<\/p>

Themes<\/strong>: Anthropocentric, social commentary<\/p>

Studio<\/strong>: Athens, Greece<\/p>

Affiliations<\/strong>: –<\/p>

Price Range<\/strong>: \u20ac400\u20131600

International Scale<\/strong>:
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/span>
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Shelter: International exhibition in support of the Hellenic Women\u2019s Network of Europe<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2026<\/p>

New Normal 5: The Blind Spot of the Mirror<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos – organized by ARTgrID, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2026<\/p>

Dwellings of the Self<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2026<\/p>

Tempus Fugit<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2025<\/p>

Silence, Voice, Echo<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2025<\/p>

Threshold: Between Light and Shadow<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2025<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Palimpsests of Memory<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2025<\/p>

Mater Mundi<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos, Alma Mater, Athens 2025<\/p>

New Symbols 4: IKIGAI<\/strong>, curated by Iason Kaerofylas, Alma Mater, Athens 2025<\/p>

Oculi Inquisitivi: Investigative Views into the Shadows of the City<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos, Luminous Eye, Athens 2024<\/p>

Odyssey of the True Self<\/strong>, curated by Vera Katranidou, Luminous Eye, Athens 2024<\/p>

Infinite Forms 2: Transformations<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024<\/p>

Behind the Masks of Utopian Joy<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024<\/p>

They All Call You a Statue, I Address You as Woman<\/strong>, curated by Vera Katranidou & Paris Kapralos, Luminous Eye, Athens 2024<\/p>

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Diagenesis<\/strong>, curated by Vera Katranidou, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024<\/p>

ATH Xmas Bazaart 2023<\/strong>, curated by Vera Katranidou & Paris Kapralos, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023<\/p>

Freedom & Creation: Bonds Without Chains<\/strong>, curated by Vera Katranidou & Paris Kapralos, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023<\/p>

Summertime<\/strong>, curated by Vera Katranidou, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023<\/p>

Visual Anthropology<\/strong>, curated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023<\/p>

The Visible and the Invisible<\/strong>, concept and curation by Paris Kapralos, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023<\/p>

Polity and Eutopia<\/strong>, concept and curation by Paris Kapralos, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023<\/p>

Gesture and Symbolism<\/strong>, concept and curation by Paris Kapralos, Luminous Eye, Athens 2023<\/p>

Human in the Cities<\/strong>, concept and curation by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023<\/p>

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Chili Bazaart<\/strong>, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023<\/p>

New Normality<\/strong>, organized by ARTgrID, hosted by Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022<\/p>

SKG Xmas Bazaart<\/strong>, Myro Gallery, Thessaloniki 2022<\/p>

The Appearance of Things<\/strong>, concept and curation by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022<\/p>

Apellis Association<\/strong>, group exhibition of members, Athens 2022<\/p>

Apellis Association<\/strong>, group exhibition of members, Athens 2021<\/p>

Apellis Association<\/strong>, group exhibition of members, Athens 2020<\/p>

Luxury Art Club<\/strong>, Athens 2019<\/p>

Apellis Association<\/strong>, group exhibition of members, Athens 2019<\/p>

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