Angelika Prapa
Greece
Angelika Prapa was born in Graz, Austria, and was raised in Thessaloniki, Greece. After her studies in Comparative Literature and Psychology, she followed a professional career in writing and editing didactic and psychological-medical Books. Her lifelong interest in painting led her to the department of Fine and Applied Arts of Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki in Greece, where she graduated withe excellence . She participated in many Exhibitions and her works are in Museums and private Collections.
Angelika Prapa's work explores the mythology of identity, which, through the processes of decay and deterioration of memory, creates false kaleidoscopic images towards a continuous reformulation and reconstitution of the “self”. The artist's main concern, which appears throughout her work, is the revelation of the authentic core of humans, of the truth that lies in the inner psyche and its denudation from misleading social norms and roles.
Continuing in the game of symbols, at a closer look A. Prapa reveals to viewers her own origin, the meeting of East and West. The elements of the environment, the landscape and objects, and the items carried by her heroes reveal their identity. In her work, fezzes and tsarouchi shoes meet North European interior design, western clothing and Austrian Belle Epoque toys. Even the rendering of light in her work mimics that of Northern European countries, in which forms appear sharp, without tensions or enveloped by heavy shadows.
Once the puzzle of the allegorical tableau vivants is resolved, the stable and investigative gaze of Prapa’s heroes focuses the viewer's attention on himself, raising the key question of human existence, the question of personal identity.
“Runges Trip”
“Falling Angels”
“Play with me”
