The Blender Gallery presents Maria Fragoudaki's solo show titled "The Deeper I Go, The More I Reveal", curated by Dr Katerina Koskina.

Extract from exhibition text by the exhibition’s curator Katerina Koskina: “In her exhibition The Deeper I Go, The More I Reveal at The Blender Gallery, Maria Fragoudaki follows a thematic axis which combines issues of different nature—social, environmental and experiential. It may not be readily obvious that her themes touch upon the two related concepts of life and home. Although they were created over a ten-year period (2015-2024), during which much changed in the life of the artist, but also in the whole planet, yet the chromatic economy of a palette limited almost exclusively to tones of blue, black and white and the extensive use of discarded materials or used objects reflects the artist’s long research into colour and form and gives to these works the character of a series……” As Katerina Koskina notes, Maria’s works “strike a balance between painting and sculpture. The use of non-painterly materials, especially those associated with a direct link to the human body and its needs—organic, functional, instinctive and emotional— attests to the artist's heightened sensitivity during pregnancy and the postpartum period…….The use of fabric and the other materials that come into contact with the human body at times of danger or reproduction turns the works of this decade into a call for protecting man and nature as well as into a reminder of the importance of human solidarity through the most essential and sacred relationships of mother and child and of the struggle for freedom”. “……Maria Fragoudaki is interested in the process of turning industrial materials into the ‘body’ of the work. The material is taken out of recycling or environmental pollution to become part of the universal, silent but powerful language of art. Through the mobilisation of the audience and the quest for another condition, new ways appear and new ‘paths’ emerge to confirm the link between our inner and outer worlds. And this is the magic and the power of art. It can poetically suggest creative ways of respecting and taking care of life which will go on anyway, in a good or a bad way, largely at our responsibility. It can also reconcile us to the idea that we, like everything else, are headed towards recycling in one way or another”.