haiku, 2014
Experimental School of the University of Athens, Greece
In the frame of The Memory Room of our Identity: Our Museums (2013-2015)
72 ceramic tiles
130 x 330 cm

The mural entitled haiku represents equations or, in other words, the forms that the straight line can assume in Analytic Geometry. This title, haiku
—from the homonym short Japanese form of poetry that was developed in the 16th centurywas given because equations simulate ideograms whose interpretation is approached through the universal language of Mathematics rendering lingual mediation unnecessary.

Mathematics consists of a connecting language code, a lingua universalis in the multicultural composition of a group of students who come from at least four different national origins. Moreover, Mathematics consists of a long-term love on a personal level just as fervently I fell in love with the tin-glazed azulejos in November 2013 in the sunny provinces of Extremadura and Andalusia. This school trip to Spain apart from the typical educational gain, also gave me a great cultural and creative boost.

Returning to Greece the first impulse I followed was not only to collect information and material for the magic I had encountered but mainly to learn the art of creating azulejos or at least the technique of making ceramic tiles. Drawn by an eagerness to realize something ambitious for my own standards, ignorance, and lack of knowledge transformed every step of the creative process into a dynamic and at times a hard lesson.

The location of the work was chosen before the sketch, that is the school where I studied for 12 whole years, a school that shaped me and offered me space, both literally and metaphorically, for one more life experiment. At the same time, I aspire to this specific artwork that is placed in the yard of a school to imply that there is space and time for what is called Art, anywhere. 

Written in 2013, translated from Greek by Dionysia Tzakosta.


I am a visual artist and researcher inspired by ecosmological narratives in scientific and local mythologies. My work is grounded in astronomy, geology, and critical theory, and I make sculptural installations, art books, and workshops. 

Recently I have been reading about cultural celestial practices in Japan, writing on sensory walking, and working at the art therapy department of an elderly home in Tokyo.

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Digital Presentation at the 11th IAKE International Scientific Conference: Creative Communities—Participation and initiative in institutional collectives: Society, Education, Political Consultation, Heraklion, Crete

PhD Public Presentation, Agential Materialities within Post-Contemporary Art Workshops: Facilitating Selfhood, Otherness, Critical Theory, and Storytelling, Tokyo University of the Arts [14 February 2025]

Photo Report of cosmohapticsー宇宙の手触り at ART iT Asia [21 March 2025]

cosmohapticsー宇宙の手触り at The 5th Floor [14 February-23 March 2025]

Launch of noboru one: genealogies, NAMNAM Space, Tokyo [14–21 December 2024]

Exhibiting at the 15th Bienal de la Habana–Shared Horizons, Cuba [15 November 2024-28 February 2025]

Dans le sillage d’Aphrodite at the Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece [29 October-11 November 2024]

Artist Residency with voyons voir+ in Marseille, France [20 September-21 October 2024]

Participation at the ‘Sonic Dialogues: Intersections of Art and Sound in Public Spaces’ Spring School at mdw–University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna [12-14 June 2025]

Paper Presentation: Youth Futurisms Through Paperscapes in the Fantastic Fields Art Workshop at The 17th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Cultural Policy Research, Aoyama Gakuin University [17 March 2024]

Research Presentation at Monash x TUA, Tokyo University of the Arts [19 January 2024]

のぼる [noboru] released at Printed Matter [10 December 2023]

Participation at the Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo [23-26 November 2023]

Documentation Online Release: PARK-PLATZ パークプラツ, Goethe-Institut Korea [30 November 2023]

Participation in Art Futures Research, The University Art Museum [11-26 November 2023]

『のぼる』[noboru]  Zine Launch at Dig A Hole Zines [14 October 2023]

what are you for a creature at NAMNAM Space, Tokyo [14-15 October 2023]

Paper Presentation at The 4th Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture: Un-learning with Matter: Observing Orientations, Frictions and Entanglements in “Silver Streaming Systems 銀河系” [10-13 October 2023]

Intervention Artist at PARK-PLATZ, URBAN WALKS Goethe-Institut East Asia [23 September 2023, 11:00-18:00]

Paper Presentation: Interfering Diffractively with Matter: Anamneses of the “Metagrid” Art Workshop at The 4th Barcelona Conference on Arts, Media & Culture [19-23 September 2023]

Emerging Scholar Award at the Eighteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University [19-21 July 2023]

Exhibiting at ROBERTO CUOGHI, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany [3 December 2022-29 May 2023]

metttafestival, Goethe-Institut Tokyo in partnership with Tokyo College, Japan [1-2 October 2022]

 Exhibition with Performance Lab: Crystal Clear at Nakacho-no-Ie, Tokyo, Japan [27-28 August 2022]

Art & New Ecology at The University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan [28 May-26 June 2022]

Project Online Launch: Planetary Systems, Eyes of Light, Greece [21 May 2022]

Stage Artwork for “The Man, my Dad” by Yoshiya Yoshimitsu, Graduation Works Exhibitions 2022, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum [29 January-1 February 2022]

Open Call for Planetary Systems: Workshop for Women with Cancer Experience, Eyes of Light, Greece [10 December 2021]

Obaachan no kami, Exhibition at Studio GROSS, Tokyo, Japan [28 August-1 September2021]

Gravestone at the Cincinnati Art Book Fair, Ohio, USA [21-22 August 2021]

ø mars, Online Exhibition by Bauhaus University Weimar and Tokyo University of the Arts [15 July 2021]

東京藝術大学佐藤時啓研究室展「Re」, Group Exhibition at ChangTing Gallery, Tokyo, Japan [19-30 March 2021]

New normal, Abnormal, 変わらないもの, Group Exhibition at VIVA, Tokyo, Japan [11-23 December 2020]

Squaring the circle at the ATOPOS cvc e-shop [22 May 2020]

Workshop DRESS 2020 at ATOPOS cvc, Athens, Greece [23 January 2020]

Occupy Atopos #Residency Studio #Chloé Paré [October 2019-March 2020]