On Friday, December 29, visual artist Anna Dimitriou was a guest on the show “The Voice that Unites Us.”
The occasion for this conversation was the card she created and donated to “Voice of Greece” along with her holiday wishes for the New Year, which she sends to the listeners of ERT’s global radio network, to Greeks around the world.
Anna Dimitriou was born in Athens in 1972. She studied film and television directing at the Stavrakos School. She expanded her studies to theater directing while working in various television shows and plays. She is self-taught in the art of collage. She began with digital collage in 2006, and ten years later, in 2016, she expanded into analog collage. As a collage artist, she has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Athens, Thessaloniki, and other cities in Greece and abroad, receiving numerous awards. Her activities, however, do not stop there. She is involved in writing, designing posters and covers for alternative magazines, and on Instagram, she goes by the pseudonym “Canndyblue.”
Since 2017, she has also been involved in street art. She creates collages in public spaces and is known for her works on abandoned buildings of historical significance, which she decorates with murals, making an artistic protest against the abandonment of these spaces by the state. She is mainly inspired by the old world, particularly the early decades of the 20th century, maintaining a continuous dialogue with the past. She combines paste-ups with materials from old photographs using the technique of décalcomanie, creating clothes and forms that are entirely surreal. Her works predominantly depict female figures from the past, with a contemporary perspective, while viewers can also notice elements of retro and romanticism.
Dimitriou’s art is truly at a crossroads of eras, somewhere between today and yesterday, with her work receiving very positive reviews.
