Christina ZAmpoulaki
czampoulaki@gmail.com@christina.zampoulaki
Christina Zampoulaki (b.1996) is a Greek-American artist, working predominantly in sculpture, installation and video art. She is a graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven with a BA from the studio of Technogeographies. Her work evolves around living organisms, their relation to themselves, their surroundings and the world they are interested in creating. Her focus is on food and the geopolitical forces that form our food systems and eating habits today. Her practice aims to create interactions between the viewers and their imagination. Interventions into normality, spaces for reflection and uncommon ideas to become possibilities.
Where does our food come from and how? How do our economic systems form our eating habits and how do our infrastructures enable our food rituals? How do we think of food and how is food an agent of change? Our kitchens and the products we use in them reflect our communal way of living, our relationship with nature and the urban environment, what can be dealt with individually versus communally. My artistic research evolves around our eating habits and how these are devised within a globalized network, using food as a social commentary, but also as the material closest to the human body. Engaging to all our vital needs and pleasures, food forms and narrates both our civilisation and the human experience. I see food as a sociopolitical tool, a natural archive, a time based practice, a natural archive, a common and a shared identity. I see the malleability of food, similar to that of human interaction.
As a theme, my practice has been very much informed around the climate crisis and nonhuman rights. Our food and the supply chains we have created around it, are living matter, organisms and ecosystems working codependently with one another. The rights thus of human and nonhuman are as codependent. Through research, installations and video art, my practice uses food as a narrator of our time.
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