Numbness Painting

Angeliki Charalampoulou is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist based in Nicosia, Cyprus. Born in Greece, she approaches art as a way of thinking rather than a discrete activity, working across painting, photography, and mixed media as part of an ongoing process of inquiry. Her engagement with art began through essay writing and poetry, closely connected to philosophy—a practice that continues to inform her work. Text and image often coexist in her process, with written fragments initiating or accompanying visual works, creating a dialogue between language and form. Painting forms the core of her practice. Working with semi-abstract figuration, chiaroscuro atmospheres, and a strong emphasis on materiality and texture, she approaches the human figure not as depiction but as a site of investigation. Rather than operating through fixed themes, her work develops through recurring questions related to identity, presence, and meaning. Existentialism and the acceptance of the absurd inform her approach as a lived stance rather than a theoretical framework. She holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and a Master’s degree in Business Administration, which shaped her understanding of structures and their interrelations—from small organizations to large systems such as states and corporations—and the position of the individual within them. Influenced early on by her mother’s practice with natural and discarded materials, and with music occupying a central role in her daily life, her work remains open and evolving. She began working systematically with painting in 2021, enrolled at the Aigaia School of Art in 2022, and since late 2024 has been pursuing a Diploma in Visual Arts.