Dimitra Bouritsa

Dimitra Bouritsa's  practice draws on the themes of womanhood as a metaphor for speaking about origins, life, established patterns between humans, communal systems, nature, fundamental emotions and existence paths. What is considered as motherly becomes a means for tracing what it takes to grow with one another. Animalistic schemes, act as portals for entering the otherness embedded in ourselves, occasionally leading us back to primitive human societies informed by our reciprocal relationship with nature, our co-existence with the non-human. In her paintings, the ancient and contemporary are linked, in order to reconfigure domineering patterns and established norms.

 

How can the medium of painting, when used as a gestural or performative gesture, mouth power dynamics, de-establish hierarchy systems or oppressive conducts? How can we use the microenvironment of a family as a way to renegotiate the fixed stereotypical image of a woman and its position and rights in the world? How can we think of domestic contexts otherwise, reform them in a way that act as liberating instead of muzzling formats? And how could elements drawn by nature, by the flora, the fauna or the non-human species surrounding us turn into another language for demanding agency and self-assurance? These are some of the questions raised in Bouritsa's works, which are enacted through metaphysical and allegorical motifs and species inspired by folk tales and cultural traditions.

 

Dimitra Bouritsa is a holder of an MA in Fine Art: Painting from Athens School of Fine Arts and an MA in  Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. Her work has been exhibited in Greece, Germany, USA and Lithuania. Selected exhibitions include: Chroma & Soma, Dual show at Peru Athens (2024); Entering Tsarouchis troop, Tsarouchis Museum (2023); Beastly Encounters, Teras Athens, Blender Gallery (2022); 100 under 1000, Schindler Lab Gallery Berlin (2021); Lusus Naturae, BCMA Gallery Berlin (2021); The view from here, Elisabeth Jones Art Center, Portland , Oregon (2020); Memoires d'un fou - les aventures de Chloe, Phoenix Athens Gallery (2019).