Perception lies at the core of my work. It is an active process that engages not only the intellect but also the body and emotions. The viewer holds a central role within my practice, becoming an essential participant rather than a passive observer. What does it mean to inhabit a particular space? How do we perceive our surroundings? And how are we affected when our habitual modes of perception are disrupted? These questions underpin the experiential environments I create, inviting reflection and embodied engagement.
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My work explores the perceptual and sensory dimensions of experience, engaging the viewer both physically and psychologically. Through a multidisciplinary practice that includes installation, performance, sculpture, video, and site-specific interventions, I seek to disrupt automatisms of perception and invite renewed attention to the act of sensing. Space, artificial mist, body, and light are recurrent materials that serve to construct environments where the unexpected can emerge. Rather than presenting the artwork as a self-contained object, I aim to create situations—immersive, shifting, and relational—that foreground the viewer’s embodied presence. At the heart of my approach lies a desire to activate a phenomenological awareness, where aesthetic experience becomes immediate, dynamic, and open-ended.
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Born in Corfu, Greece.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Athina Masoura is a Paris -based visual artist and doctor in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts. She creates installations, sculptures, performances and interventions in public space as a way to explore perception, toeing the line between familiarity and uncanny, body and space. She is often invited to academicals talks about contemporary art, she has participated in several workshops as well as in numerous solo and group exhibitions in both France and Greece. She is currently teaching art at the University of Toulouse, in the department of Fine Arts and Design.
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