The serie reimagines archetypal female figures of Greek mythology through a contemporary lens, intertwining myth, popular culture, and personal iconography. Using goddesses and demigods as a point of departure, I turned to images of modern Greek and German women, drawing material from TUSH magazine, artist Penny Monogiou’s photoshoot, and my son’s favorite video game.

In these portraits and installations, I primarily employed the tetrachrome of ancient Greek painting (white, black, deep red, ochre), applied either against a black ground reminiscent of Byzantine iconography or onto printed images. This chromatic strategy both morphologically and conceptually shapes stereotypes of femininity, which are then “fertilized” by the elements of modern fiction.

Persephone emerges as both queen of the underworld and goddess of spring, her duality amplified by props drawn from gaming aesthetics. Medea, priestess and sorceress, embodies betrayal, rage, and the paradox of maternal violence. Medusa, posed here by Penny Monogiou, is reframed beyond monstrosity—her serpentine gaze transformed into an emblem of resilience and metamorphosis. Cerberus, guardian of the underworld, further extends the pantheon, marking thresholds between myth and reality, death and survival.

The installation Pocket Size Monsters, composed of posca drawings on Pokémon cards, translates the monumental weight of myth into playful, intimate tokens. Here, the global imagery of popular culture collides with the ancient archive, reconfiguring how myth can be inhabited today.

By focusing on the body, the series explores traditional representations of femininity and gendered roles while probing the limits of what it means to be human. These goddesses are not distant relics of antiquity but active fictions—avatars of desire, power, and survival within our own time.