Absence divided by three absences, a collaboration with Evi Zambogianni and Georgia Kalyva.
An action for Carrots for the Unquiet at Studio 11, department of fine Art, at Athens School of Fine Arts, with proffesors Vassilis Vlastaras, Kostis Stafylakis and Adonis Stoantzikis.

This work examines femininity as a human capacity that was interrupted rather than absent.

We are interested in emotional awareness, nurturance, receptivity, intuition, and embodiment—not as aesthetic traits, but as developmental needs. These qualities form early through being emotionally seen, through safety in expressing fear, joy, sadness, and desire, and through learning that rest and connection are not conditional. When these roots are present, softness does not feel shameful. It feels natural.

When they are missing, femininity is not erased—it is suppressed for survival.

This absence often appears as disconnection from the body, mistrust of emotion, and an over-reliance on control, productivity, or self-criticism. Softness becomes associated with danger or failure. Care becomes something offered outward but resisted inward. Sensitivity survives quietly, untrained and unprotected.

Our work does not frame this as personal deficiency. It situates it within emotional neglect, early responsibility, and environments that reward toughness while punishing vulnerability. Femininity, in this context, is not rejected—it is postponed.

Healing, is not a return to an idealised feminine form. It is a process of integration. It involves listening without correction, resting without justification, and allowing intuition and emotion to exist without needing to be productive. It is a reclamation of self-worth untethered from approval.

This practice is slow and often uncomfortable. It resists spectacle. It asks what it means to feel at home in the body after years of living in defense. It treats care as a skill that can be relearned and softness as a form of strength that was never meant to be sacrificed.

The work holds space for what was never fully supported, and for the possibility that roots can still grow.