Quintessence Installation

Chara Kerasta was born in 1994 and grow up in Levadeia, Greece. Today, she lives and works in Athens. She is a graduate of Fine Arts and Art Science department at the Ioannina school of Fine Arts(2012- 2017). She continued her studies in the Master of Fine Art (MFA) at Athens School of Fine Arts (2017- 2019). In July 2019 she presented her thesis with title T-Here. In 2015 she gained the first prize in monthly photo contest conducted by "Photonet" magazine on human portrait. A year later, she interned at Artwork Production by side of the photographer and visual artist Konstantinos Ignatiadis. From 2015 onwards, she has participated in exhibitions and workshops in Thessaloniki, Ioannina, Andros and Athens. ​ In her work, she uses the Uncanny or the (un)heimlich as Freud introduced for the (un)known and (un)familiar, to set a map for return at home, at self. Her practices include the repeated visit of places where she lived and she comes into conflict with them to create a new intimacy, and finally a new place/ without place.