Emi Avora

Emi Avora, born in Greece and trained in the UK (Oxford University and Royal Academy Schools), is currently a Singapore-based artist. Drawing subject matter from her everyday life in Asia as well as her Greek ancestry with a focus on the interior and still life, her paintings are entering a dialog with modernist historical canons as well as ponder on our ambiguous relationship to colonial narratives, exoticism, taste, our environment, motherhood and the everyday. Sometimes dreamy, sometimes intense and with the use of light on the driving seat, her work allows space for invention, creating a gap between looking and making, between the real and the imaginary. Everyday observations become exaggerated through the use of colour and change of scale, focusing on what surprises her or grasps her attention. Emi Avora has exhibited globally at various solo projects, including Theatre of Greece Athens, South Square Arts Centre, UK, The Apartment Gallery, Athens, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York and Gallery Truebenbach, Cologne.