THE WEAVING of threads, sowing them onto the canvas, creating cocoons with them, combining them with fragments of material and with the painted canvas: all this is part of Eozen Agopian’s artistic process. Colours prevail, creating abstract scenes in which paint, thread and textiles interweave, creating a contemporary visual tapestry of thoughts, emotions, figures and forms. Eozen Agopian’s solo exhibition ‘Sea Through’, at Eleftheria Tseliou gallery runs through January 31, 2026.

Dr Vanda Chalyvopoulou, visual artist, has written the following about Eozen Agopian’s work:

See through or the penetrating gaze

This text arose from a conversation with my friend and artist Eozen Agopian. I share it as the result of our dialogue, in the hope that it conveys a part of the wide range of her beliefs and thoughts. Thousand ways to see, everchanging, October’s rebirth, some blissful days, light in light, looking once more, visual touch, see through… The titles of her works are a direct introduction into the content of the reasoning that shapes her work, along with her manual interventions. In Eozen Agopian’s work, a first reading perceives the materiality and stability of the painting space,  grounded  on  the  framed  canvas,  broken  up  into  many  smaller  spaces.  In  a  second reading,  the  gaze  penetrates  or  wanders  amongst  the  figures,  revealing  a  dialogue  with another  space,  connected  to  the  primary  one  but  seeming  to  belong  in  another  dimension. That  space  is  not  empty  but  full  of  pulsating  energy:  a  universe  characterised  by  the otherworldly, the mysterious. It exists simultaneously somewhere else, in another dimension, and is ripe for exploration. In  that  world  that  lights  up  and  is  lit  by  secret  senses,  most  times  inexplicable  by  and  to herself, Eozen dares to meander. In this “other” space, the body is brought to mind through the memory of its materiality and its capacity for gesturing. The clusters of small fingers that appear  in  some  of  the  works  result  from  the  artist’s  gesture  of  weaving  the  thread  on  her body. Each finger a cocoon, a safe nest of habitation and, at the same time, a reminder of the void that results from an empty shell, from the knowledge that, once, there was a body there. Her work  with the  thread and  her hands  which forms  its materiality  is what  engenders the figures in Eozen Agopian’s work. Weaving is not the point where her journey begins – it is her play with the line/thread. That is what builds the matter. From the canvas to her otherworldly landscapes.  It  slips  away  from  the  painting  background  into  the  space,  stretches,  twists, evolves, expands, comes alive in three dimensions. It forms strings that vibrate, impressions of  imaginary  audio  landscapes  that  affect  and  redetermine  the  chromatic  environments. Those,  in  turn,  are  configured  as  geological  arrays  which  shift,  fold  back,  create  spaces,  layover  others.  There,  in  between,  the  gaze  touches  upon  layers  of  memory,  planes  of  matter, yearning to  find itself  beyond the maneuvers  of thought,  “the glow  of a  primordial world, a gaze freed of habits and regrets”, as she puts it herself. The fleeting impression, the intuition of  this  world  is  expressed  through  a  dance  of  luminous  figures  which  escapes  through  the cracks, the oblique paths and the gazes that penetrate the routes of the work’s construction.

Translated in English by Daphne Kapsali

• Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery is on 3 Irakleitou Street, Kolonaki, 10673 Athens
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