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Vasiliki Kateri | Visual Artworks
(selected presentation)
“Throughout the work of Vasiliki Kateri, one encounters the colors of a hidden spring, of an autumn’s guardian, of a summer destined to erupt… In other words, the colors of the seasons within us… With the secret anticipation of a volcanic eruption whose lava will illuminate the essential truths of our lives…”
— Sophia I. Fildis
poet – writer (1937 - 2011)
"It is handmade beauty, shaped from incorruptible yet living materials. And one wonders — how is it possible? How can they preserve life untouched within their core while death has conquered them so many times? And yet, it is possible… Because they are earth and water, and neither do the cliffs vanish, nor does the river run dry. They are traces of autumn, drawn into dance by the exhilarated wind; ash and roots and bark, fruits of the earth and shell dust, gathered in anger and scattered upon the roads. But it is the wind — and you cannot turn it back…You can only, if you wish and if you are initiated, listen to the whispers of the earth within its deep silence, hear its pentatonic melodies and its polyphony, follow the skipping dance of the river and the ribbons of the wind among the hanging beehives.
— Vanta (Vaitsa) Koutsokosta
writer – lyricist (1960–2020)
The use of natural materials in their natural color has been a constant element of Vasiliki Kateri’s artistic practice since the early 1990s. The compositions of this period, characterized by strong linear and geometric elements, were influenced by her studies in interior architecture and her systematic engagement with linear drawing.
Her continuous need for experimentation and the incorporation of new media and techniques gradually led her artistic exploration toward newer forms of composition, image transformation, and visual experience, where materiality coexists with photographic and digital processing.
The works presented below are representative of different creative periods in her artistic journey since 1997. Their presentation does not follow a strict chronological order, but rather approaches thematic and morphological groupings.
The Symphony of Sand | 2000 | 83 × 71 cm
Mixed media
Materials: Sand, crushed shell
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Note: The Symphony of Sand was used as the cover artwork for a 2,000-copy publication issued by the Local Union of Municipalities and Communities of Ioannina in 2000, distributed free of charge to public organizations, schools, and educational institutions.
EV 5 | 2000 | 86 × 70 cm
Mixed media
Materials: Sand, pebbles, crushed shell, wire
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Symphony of Circle – Line I | 2000 | 80 × 59 cm
Mixed media
Materials: Sand, pebbles, shell, glass and tile crushed into grains, powdered lava and glass, copper sheet and copper rods
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Contemporary Greek Art Gallery of Kalamata
Symphony of Circle – Line II | 2000 | 126 × 55 cm
Mixed media
Materials: Mortar sand, pebbles, crushed shell, grains of glass and tile, powdered lava and glass, copper sheet and copper rods, tree bark
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Cyclotron II | 2000 | 125 × 55 cm
Mixed media
Materials:
Powdered lava, pebbles, crushed shell and glass, copper sheet and copper rods, powdered mineral rock
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Eccentro I | 2000 | 85 × 70 cm
Mixed media
Materials:
Mortar sand, powdered lava, crushed tile and glass, copper rods, pebbled sand
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Private collection
Eccentro II | 2000 | 86 × 70 cm
Mixed media
Materials:
Charcoal dust, glass grains, brass rods, pebbles, powdered mineral rock
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Private collection
Amnios I | 2003 | 95 × 75 cm
Mixed media
Materials:
Sand, copper sheet, ash, powdered lava, grains and powder of glass and tile, bronze and copper rods, metal filings, rope
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Private collection
Geometry of Memory | 1997 | 97 × 80 cm
Mixed media
Materials:
Mortar sand, cedar bark, crushed shell, tile and glass, ash, roots
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Inner Space | 1997 | 100 × 100 cm
Mixed media
Awarded at the 18th Panhellenic Exhibition of Visual Arts of the “Parnassos” Literary Society in Athens, in 1998.
Materials:
Sand, pine and cedar bark, crushed shell, tile and glass, moss, linden fruits, ash, pebbles, roots
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Note:
The work was used as the cover artwork for the publication Messinian Creations – Volume VIII, published by the Messinian Writers Association, Kalamata 2020 (“24grammata Editions”).
Cosmogony III | 2000 | 70 × 85 cm
Mixed media
Materials:
Pine bark, glass powder and grains, sand, pebbles, roots
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Cosmogony I | 1997 | 70 × 85 cm
Mixed media
Materials:
Pine and cedar bark, powder and grains of glass and tile, ash, roots
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Private collection
Ideoforms | 1998 | 82 × 128 cm
Mixed media
Materials:
black slate stone, plaster, sand, melted metal and metal mesh, roots
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
EV 6 | 2000 | 120 × 70 cm
Mixed media
Materials:
Sand, crushed shell and glass, powdered mineral rock
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
EV 1 | 2000 | 61 × 40 cm
Mixed media
Materials:
Sand, pebbles, powdered lava, powdered mineral rock
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Private collection
EV 2 | 2000 | 61 × 40 cm
Mixed media
Materials:
Sand, crushed shell, pebbles, powdered lava, powdered mineral rock
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Private collection
Aenao I | 2008
Mixed media
Collage of digitally processed photographs, printed on canvas, with the addition of metal filings
VANITAS II | 2008 | 110 × 68 cm
Mixed media
Digitally processed photograph, printed on canvas, with the addition of natural materials (sand, crushed shell, cement, nails).
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Private collection
Vanitas III | 2008 | 110 × 68 cm
Mixed media
Digitally processed photograph, printed on canvas, with the addition of natural and non-natural materials (sand, melted metal, cement, liquid glass).
Private collection
1 Second | 2007 | 120 × 90 cm
Mixed media
Digitally processed photograph, printed on canvas, with the addition of natural materials (sand, crushed shell, pulverized wood).
The natural materials were used without artificial chromatic interventions.
Private collection
The Story Beyond | 2008 | 110 × 68 cm
Mixed media
Diptych of digitally processed photographs, printed on canvas, with the addition of natural river sand.
Private collection
No Other Shore Further Away Has Yet Appeared | 2013
Installation | Mixed media
Artist’s accompanying text:
“No other shore further away has yet been found… An endless journey, an endless anticipation… a dream… a reality… Thoughts overtaking one another in rhythms that shatter the sluggishness of vastness. Wet footsteps searching for land and for a horizon capable of redemption. I steal the dazzling white of the little paper boat from my childhood and once again become its stowaway! With a ‘defiant’ smile, I escape through the burnt window of false promises and misery, and set sail toward the shore within me!”
Note:
The title of the work derives from the final verse of the XIX poem in Thanasis Pantes’ second poetry collection Poetry Does Not Sell (March 2012, Kostas Markakis & FARAI Publishing S.A.).
The work was presented in the context of group exhibitions. The specific photograph comes from Vasiliki Kateri’s participation in the group exhibition organized by the MANI PULSE artists’ group in Agios Nikolaos, West Mani, in 2019.
The ideogram for the MANI | Kazantzakis – Zorbas Project by KALLIERGON syn, brings together the human presence and the landscape. (2026)
The complete selected texts follow below, excerpts of which accompany the introduction to the presentation of Vasiliki Kateri’s works.