Homage to Delft symposium 2009

'shows how simplicity can bring a message'

Giorgia Grigoriadou showed during the 4th Symposium of World Art Delft in 2008 how simplicity can bring a message.
Used teabags hanging in wooden frames did more than surprise us: her installation learned the onlooker that recycling can have artistic value and make us aware that beauty can be found everywhere.
As she is a textile artist, she used textile as material to bring her Homage to Delft. But fundamentally her textile objects hang down like the meaningful teabags from a year before, suggesting a stylish, disciplined group of dancers. May-be that is not too surprising for people who know that Gioria Grigoriadou is also a dancer – participants of the 5th Symposium have been able to notice it.

Recycle Art symposium 2008

'we also can recycle emotions and ideas.'

Grigoriadou mentions that the concept of recycling is not only about materials. We also can recycle emotions, friendships, food and ideas.
Our memory is something fluid, colourful and flexible. Memories too can be compartmentalised, changed, deleted and even recycled.
Grigoriadou has for years created art in order to make worthless materials worthwhile. She uses goods that have had another function, such as teabags, toys, newspapers, stamps and clothing. These things get a new form and function within her collages, installations and textile art.