Christou’s work examines the politics associated with inside and outside spaces, in an attempt to expose the ways in which womxn operate within them. In this process, the inner and outer worlds of the artist are exposed, in a parallel and at times conflicting conversation. An essentially introverted personality is turned into a hyper-extrovert persona, seeking intimacy and connection in an increasingly noisy world. Using herself as a medium of research, she enters public spaces and her immediate social circles to observe how expressive, feminist, activist, queer forces are being suppressed or silenced by the deafening noise of patriarchal and colonial undercurrents.

Her work is characterised as a ‘practice to remember’, as she draws from her childhood memories and upbringing in a busy, at times chaotic environment, surrounded predominantly by women. Digging into her past, revisiting engraved influences, feelings and aesthetics, she questions how much of oneself remains intact in the process of growing up and how much of it is ‘accessorised’ in order to fit into certain narratives. By recalling practices and habits from her childhood, she finds that even in the most chaotic environments there can be space for creative, gentle outputs, on which her practice is built on.

In an attempt to examine the changing currents of energy, in both micro and macro levels, inside and outside spaces, the artist ultimately proposes intentional innocence as the only force that can withstand the ‘noise’, and trigger change.

– Text by Maria Toumazou