ARTIST

Maria Salouvardou is an interdisciplinary, Berlin-based artist from Andros, Greece. Maria's art transcends boundaries, combining the creation of costumes and scenography with performing art in installations of female bodies/costumes. She participates in various exhibitions and performs internationally, spreading her messages deeply concerned with the inequalities, in a world fraught with patriarchy, conflict and heedless consumerism.

Her work is rooted in feminine energy, women’s freedom of expression, mythologies, her shifting place in the world and transformation. Her creative process is deeply tactile and ritualistic, with knitting and embroidery holding a central, sacred role. While experimenting on new techniques e.g. for "paper making" and "textile art", she upcycles, restructures and composes with a principal environmental focus towards waste and plastic.

In the poetry-inspired installations, her voice resonates through needles, threads, papers, wires together with sounds, music and words crafting a narrative. She combines book pages, talismans and found objects to create garments and environments that are both intimate and otherworldly.  When collaborating with composers, the created soundscapes animate her sculptures and the installations form immersive worlds where female bodies/costumes as ethereal presences float like ghosts in space, blending the divine and the earthly, offering a contemplative space that speaks to both the personal and the collective psyche.

As a performer, she is a weaver of threads symbolizing women's lives, sewing words, knitting memories, whispering fairy tales, and performing emotions. In some works, goddesses or priestesses appear as messengers; in others, mortal women emerge to embody poems—speaking with every part of their bodies and carrying symbolic messages.