Few Words about me

Sofia Koukoulioti is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with photography and digital image-making. Her practice explores absence, mythology, memory, and the tension between nature and culture, while moving between different temporalities—the past, the present, and imagined futures.

Her images often begin with an observation of the natural world, but gradually move beyond representation into poetic and imagined territories. Nature becomes a space of transformation, where traces of what has disappeared coexist with visions of what may come. Through this interplay, her work reflects on fragility, memory, loss, renewal, and the changing relationship between the human world and the natural environment.

Mythology is an important element of her visual language. Ancient figures, symbols, and archetypes reappear not as illustrations of existing myths, but as fragments of a deeper collective memory. They inhabit ambiguous spaces between presence and absence, reality and fiction, human and non-human.

Across different bodies of work, Koukoulioti moves between the intimate observation of nature and speculative visions of the future. Her photographic series Stilliving and Posidonia approach nature through delicate forms of observation, while Gea and Elegy of the Future: A Dystopian Overture move toward more symbolic and imagined landscapes.

At the centre of her practice is an interest in what remains when something is no longer fully present: a trace, a memory, a landscape, a myth, or an imagined future. Her work considers the past not as something fixed, but as something that continues to return, transform, and shape our perception of the present and the future.

Through photography and digital processes, Koukoulioti creates poetic spaces where nature, culture, mythology, memory, and imagination converge. Her work invites the viewer to move between different temporalities—to encounter echoes of the past while contemplating possible futures, and to question the boundaries between what is natural and what is created, remembered, or imagined.

Studies

Sofia Koukoulioti studied at the School of Photography and Audiovisual Arts in Athens, developing a foundation in photographic practice and visual expression. She later completed a Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of Westminster in London, expanding her engagement with digital image-making and contemporary visual practices.