Dafni Barbageorgopoulou’s full-wall tapestry works and sculptures draw their inspiration from a wealth of different influences ranging from Greek to Mexican and Indonesian art, from geometry to poetry or from handicraft knotting techniques to monumental architecture. Her works are characterised by the powerful fusion of a large number of ideas, disciplines and genres taken from a wide cultural spectrum.
In her current research, Barbageorgopoulou is investigating the link between the narrative structures of dreams and journeys and examining the ways in which these structures are manifest. Thus, most of the individual elements in her works originate from detailed memories of dreams that she has experienced during her travels. The spatial and temporal transitions that take place during a journey correspond to the non-linear, apparently organic growth of the geometric patterns and repeated sequences in her works, which turn the intuitive relations between memory and action into tools of artistic expression. Barbageorgopoulou observes and develops this intuitive art form very consciously.
As Barbageorgopoulou tends to work simultaneously on different works and in different media, the exhibition “Floating Islands”, which collects together her recently completed pieces, offers the diversity and wealth of a small group exhibition.