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Bio

Dolores Mavridou a.k.a Serolod (b. 1997) studied Fine and Applied Arts for 5 years at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, graduating with an Integrated Master’s Degree in November 2021. She’s currently living and studying in London, UK, at the Royal College of Art in the Painting MA Programme, and is expected to graduate in August 2024. Her recent exhibitions include: Memory, Group Exhibition, Chili Art Projects, New Bond Street, London (2024). Larissa Biennale, Katsigras Museum, Larissa, Greece (2023). Group exhibition, Cultural Heritage of Greece, Saints Petersburg (2021).

Artist Statement

What I seek through painting is to find naturalness and intimacy in unusual environments, looking for balance between colours that are in constant conflict with each other. I’m exploring colour theory, the borders of skin and environment, and the relationship between the creation and destruction of an image. Although I use traditional means of expression, my themes start from images that emerge digitally through photo editing programs. I use oil paint as my main medium because it gives me a freedom of technical expression that matches my processing needs. As organic as it may seem, my paintings are controlled down to the smallest touch. I go far beyond digital imagery reproduced on canvas by painting everything that cannot be rendered and visualized digitally, transforming my digital prototypes into paintings. Incorporating effects of dust and fragments in my paintings is an attempt to render a broader transcendent reality that unifies everything in harmony, creating images that imply an infinite connection between people and everything around them as a response to the unified nature of reality – the phenomenon of the endless connection between everything – from the most distant galaxy to the undivided atom. I’m inspired by Einstein’s theory of general relativity that conceptualizes the underlying influence of matter
on the fabric of spacetime and the relationships this builds.

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