Maria Christoforidou

Maria Christoforidou is an Afro-Greek artist, writer and researcher. Her practice explores the political, physical and performative operations of words and images, motivated by a hope to create pauses that allow minor stories of sameness, voices, bodies and plant comrades to evade classification and rest. Her studies in art history, meditation and somatic practices inform solo and collaborative projects connecting with ancestry and lost knowledge, healing colonial legacies. She is part of Surplus Cinema, a travelling film collective exploring feminist, diasporic and metasporic filmmaking. Her video poem ‘ΜΑΛΘΑ: The Thrice Burnt Archives of Unreliable Prophecies’ was shown in the Almanac of Transmediale 2021 to 22. She is a Fine Art lecturer at Falmouth University and lives in Cornwall and Athens.