SPYLAB maria spyraki

Maria Spyraki aka SPYLAB (b. 1977) is a self taught contemporary visual artist, living and working in Athens, Greece. She has studied architecture in London, U.K., but devoted herself to art.

 

''My artworks are diagrammatic, linear, abstract; I encapsulate symbols from our everyday life which tend to lose their semantic concept through repetition and their purpose is to create a background of vagueness and a foreground of feelings.

An artwork opens up and maintains a constant dialogue between the artist and the viewer without ever losing its power and dynamic. Their relationship is constantly evolving and changing through time and social needs. A diagram is formed; it tends to promote the evolution of this ongoing relationship, that’s why a painting is never the same with multiple views. There is always something else to discover and more to find out about your self. So I could say that a painting is the diagram of the relationship between the artist and the viewers. 

I strongly believe that art is social. Its meaning is surely related to the changeable social and political conditions from time to time. Art has to be viewed and appreciated by everyone, that’s why graffiti and generally street / urban art is my favorite art expression. Art belongs to everybody, not just the privileged.''

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