Who Am i

My name is Myrto Grigoriou (b. 1995, Larissa, Greece) and I am a visual artist using primarily the medium of photography with an artistic research approach. My practice focuses on the construction of a personal visual language through the exploration of records, memory, absence and time. I am interested in how photographic images function not only as representations of reality, but as psychological spaces where personal experience, collective memory, and sociopolitical structures intersect and build the concept of belonging.

In my artistic development, I approach reality instinctively, positioning myself between presence and distance as an observer. Through this mode of spectation, I explore latent dimensions of socialization, emotion, and perception, focusing on subtle moments that would otherwise be lost, disappear, and eventually be forgotten, facts that make me want to execute an illusory, poetic space-time where oblivion is resisted.

Over the past seven years, my work has been published in various online and print platforms and presented in group exhibitions in Athens. A central part of my practice is backstage documentation, where I collaborate with artists as the external eye, mentally and photographically, to capture the ephemeral energy and atmosphere of creative processes. These moments allow me to examine broader sociopolitical extensions, revealing how individuals relate to, internalize, or resist the environments they inhabit.

I currently work between Greece and Belgium, as since 2025 we create VIA VIOU transdisciplinary collective non-profit company with dance artist fyllenia grigoriou. Its practice moves between the stage, the image, and the archive, developing artistic productions, recordings, research projects, and educational activities. The group perceives creation as a collective process and aesthetic experience as a field of dialogue, criticism, and reinterpretation of reality.