Alkistis Mavrokefalou (born 1993) lives and works between Athens and Chios. She received her BFA from Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (2014) and her MFA from MET, Athens School of Fine Art (2017). She has taken part in several group shows among which: Mataroa, 5th Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Fair (2021), If anything survives, Potential Project (2021), Sleeping Beauties, BacktoAthens8 International Arts Festival (2021), Μatrix, Hydra School Projects (2020), Coffins of Black, Coffins of Luck, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre (2019), Per Form, Dilston Grove, London (2014). She is an Artwork Fellow (SNF Artist Fellowship Award from Stavros Niarchos Foundation 2020).
Her work is centred on the coexistence of frailty and durability observed in organic shreds found in nature (such as flower petals, exoskeletons, etc) and on the elliptical, illusory presence of these fragments within their surroundings. Her practice is an effort to communicate their elusive, elliptical essence through structures that play with the perception of depth and surface
