Ioanna Sakellaraki

Eyes on Talents member, Ioanna Sakellaraki, is a Greek visual artist and researcher. Her work investigates the relationship between collective cultural memory and fiction. Her first monograph, The Truth is in the Soil, has been published in April by GOST Books. Sakellaraki’s series is a 5-year exploration of grief as an elegy to her father and the dying tradition of mourning in Greece. After her personal loss, her own grieving process became the lens through which she investigates the collective mourning in Greek society, the intersection of ancestral rituals, private trauma and the passage of time. Ioanna Sakellaraki dwelled within traditional communities of the last female mourners inhabiting the Mani peninsula looking for traces of bereavement and grief.