"You took the picture" Painting

Dionysia Adamopoulou was born in 1993 and is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She is currently studying at the Athens School of Fine Arts under the guidance of the Professor Xagoraris and holds a degree from Athens University of Economics and Business. Alongside her visual practice, she develops a parallel body of writing often in dialogue with her visual work. In 2024, she published her first poetry collection, “Τα Χρώματα της Μητρότητας”, exploring themes of maternal identity and transformation. Her work has been presented in exhibitions in Greece and abroad and is held in private collections and the public collection of Lamia Hospital. She is a member οf the visual art associations “Μεσογαία” and “ΣΚΕΤΚΕ”. Her work departs from the female body — present in some pieces, dissolved in others. Moving between painting, mixed media, and monotype, materials are chosen for how they absorb, tear, and resist. Forms are cut and reassembled not to restore, but to record dissolution. Grief is the recurring condition which is held in the pressure of materials, in surfaces that erode, in the way work shifts as trauma becomes more conscious, more inhabited. What emerges holds two things at once: the attempt to grasp, and the recognition that it is already gone. An ongoing attempt to reformulate a self still being shaped by absence.