ALKYONI
Bouchalaki

   Alkyoni Bouchalaki was born in 1984 in Athens to cretan parents. She studied Architecture in Volos (Greece) with a master degree in public art and ephemeral spaces in Barcelona.

  Since her first year of studies, she has been exploring conceptual art on body expression. She has been a member of the contemporary dance company “Simple Steps” from 2006-2010 in Greece.

    She currently lives and works in the Natural Park of Montnegre, 30km away from Barcelona city where she continues her artistic research. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

 As a performance artist, I am interested in inviting an instant internal awakening of the public, by creating hypnotizing actions based on a question. I will ask the question and it will be answered by my artwork.     So far, my conceptual and aesthetic references are influenced by arquetypes and symbols of Greek and Minoan mythology. The speed is slow and the representation is minimal. Silence and eye contact are important compositional tools. In my performances, I usually make an unconventional use of different objects.     About my artwork result, besides the live performance, I like to take a series of photo graphs of myself and, if necessary, videos.