Sorbonne Artgallery

​"What are the odds of seeing angels on your ceiling?

Equal of seeing a landscape within a transparent and colourless stone.

Thus if an unseen landscape is revealed, what happens to the angels on your ceiling?"

Eleni Paridi

 

Eleni Paridi’s work is an experimental, visual and conceptual exploration of crystalline minerals. His practice explores the idea of memory inscribed in the subject. Since crystals embody the first strata of the Earth’s history, observing their shapes, textures, structures and interiors becomes a ritual for the artist. She approaches the invisible with the qualities of transparency and the dynamics of colored light. What cannot be seen does not imply its inexistence; in her quest for the elusive, she chooses clear quartz and other colorless and transparent stones as the main subjects of her photography. His images evoke a sense of mystery and invite the viewer to an intimate dialogue with geological time and transformation. 

 

“By deepening our gaze beyond the surface, we discover another image that we may never have imagined existed, thus broadening our perception of reality and our understanding.”

Eleni Paridi

 

With a background in psychology and business administration, Paridi has worked as a graphic designer, artistic director, radio producer, journalist and music critic. Her interest in human nature has led her to explore various approaches to psychotherapy—including psychodrama, family constellations and art-therapy — as well as different holistic energy practices such as Reiki, lithotherapy, among others. Since 2017, the universe of crystals—with its engraved memory and interactive nature — has become the central subject of his photographic exploration. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Syros, Athens, Thessaloniki, Mykonos, New York, Rome, Venice, and soon in Barcelona and Florence. Eleni lives and works between Athens and the island of Syros, in Greece.