Labrini Rizaki

Lamprini Rizaki is a visual artist and researcher, born in Greece in 1991. She holds a BA in Graphic Design from Vakalo, Art and Design College, a seminar degree from KESYTHE on art therapy and consultation and is currently a student of Fine Arts in Athens School of Fine Arts. In her work, Rizaki is concerned with post-capitalist structures and the new hybridic social model they create, which establishes unfamiliar patterns of communication and pulverizes the human body through the means of technology and consumerism. She traces and records the course of the human, its history and evolution while appreciating colonialism as a condition and a need of the human to have control over anything non-human. Through her research, she delves into those new in-between spaces fabricated within this contemporary social model, while mapping out the transition of human activity from the physical to the virtual space, and the mechanisms of control interweaved with it.

In her practice, Rizaki aims to create new paths and spaces of suspension where all people are allowed to recollect their thoughts and exist. Through the use of science and technology, her projects attempt to create a discourse on the posthuman entity that formulates our new, fractionated reality. Rizaki is an active resident of the “Post Social Media Club” residency organized by STPLN, Volumes, Nova Iskra, ATÖLYE and bios. Her work has been presented in spaces, venues and publications such as Beton 7, Simio Theatre, the Platforms Project and Thraka magazine. She divides her time between Komotini and Athens.