Dina RoussouDina Roussou

Title thesis:
Mrs & Mr Motley and other myths [ ]
Melancholy as a genuine force in contemporary Art
Subject:
'Melancholy is a genuine force in contemporary art; not as a depressive state, but rather as a state that embraces poetics and surreal situations within reality. Its powerful introspection has a deep knowledge of the wealth gained through experience. It is fact that in the current socio-political and cultural whirlpool, there seems a peremptory need to once again create and reform terms.
In which ways does the shape of experience and identity of the melancholic artist, under a certain political and social regime, manage to reform terms and conditions? How does the paradox of melancholy form revolution? Which are the crucial aspects of the paradox within the modern context of postwar capitalism? How does an individual state become part of the collective and what is the pivotal role of melancholy in culture and art in particular?'
Link to thesis (PDF)

In my art practice I reflect upon human existence and experience
in relation to form and space. Through the tensions between reality, perception and illusion, I aim to address certain questions; to trigger the sensual part of existance. Rhizomatic philosophical concept influences my thoughts represented into video and spatial installations.
A body of work consisted of sculptures, videos and performance as actions and suggestions of a
state-of-being in an open dialogue. Employing composition, form and colours within space and time,
the questioning journey of the semantics of existence within structure(s) begins.
My latest work engages colour
and light to sculpture space as an assumption of objective reality within a psychological context. How do we experience physicality? What happens on the boundaries of existance?.

Title thesis:
Mrs & Mr Motley and other myths [ ]
Melancholy as a genuine force in contemporary Art
Subject:
'Melancholy is a genuine force in contemporary art; not as a depressive state, but rather as a state that embraces poetics and surreal situations within reality. Its powerful introspection has a deep knowledge of the wealth gained through experience. It is fact that in the current socio-political and cultural whirlpool, there seems a peremptory need to once again create and reform terms.
In which ways does the shape of experience and identity of the melancholic artist, under a certain political and social regime, manage to reform terms and conditions? How does the paradox of melancholy form revolution? Which are the crucial aspects of the paradox within the modern context of postwar capitalism? How does an individual state become part of the collective and what is the pivotal role of melancholy in culture and art in particular?'
Link to thesis (PDF)

In my art practice I reflect upon human existence and experience
in relation to form and space. Through the tensions between reality, perception and illusion, I aim to address certain questions; to trigger the sensual part of existance. Rhizomatic philosophical concept influences my thoughts represented into video and spatial installations.
A body of work consisted of sculptures, videos and performance as actions and suggestions of a
state-of-being in an open dialogue. Employing composition, form and colours within space and time,
the questioning journey of the semantics of existence within structure(s) begins.
My latest work engages colour
and light to sculpture space as an assumption of objective reality within a psychological context. How do we experience physicality? What happens on the boundaries of existance?.