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Aliki Christoforou

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Aliki Christoforou (1992) is a greek and belgian multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels. Her practice unfolds across lens-based media, installation and writing, and moves along the porous borders between reality and fiction, history and myth. She is drawn to stories that tell other stories — narratives that repopulate our imaginaries and question our reality.
Guided by a desire to uncover submerged narratives, her work explores individual and collective memory, weaving connections between past, present, and possible futures. It situates itself within an expanded ecological framework that dissolves boundaries between the human and the non-human, revealing social and environmental realities as intricate, interdependent constellations.
Initially trained in architecture and scenography, Aliki later obtained a MA in photography from ENSAV La Cambre (2022) as well as a MA in «Art Practice – Critical Tools» from ERG (2025) in Brussels. Her work has since been exhibited accros Europe.
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2025

Submerged Perspectives


Submerged Perspectives seeks to examine the Mediterranean sea in the historical wake of the (Black) Atlantic and to explore the forms of survivance that persist in the present of a past that is not truly past. Weaving together ecological collapse and colonial legacies, it follows the voices that circulate in the sea’s depths, revealing what lies beneath its shimmering surface. The sea emerges as a liquid archive of memory and matter — a place of mourning, transformation, and resistance.
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2025

Submerged Perspectives


Submerged Perspectives seeks to examine the Mediterranean sea in the historical wake of the (Black) Atlantic and to explore the forms of survivance that persist in the present of a past that is not truly past. Weaving together ecological collapse and colonial legacies, it follows the voices that circulate in the sea’s depths, revealing what lies beneath its shimmering surface. The sea emerges as a liquid archive of memory and matter — a place of mourning, transformation, and resistance.
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Gelification


The term « gelification » of the seas has surfaced recently to describe the overabundance of jellyfish drifting by the thousands. Every disturbance to marine ecosystems seems to play in their favor. Overfishing, pollution, rising temperatures, and ocean acidification — all the upheavals caused by human activity — create ideal conditions for their expansion. Today, many sectors are affected by this proliferation: tourism, fishing, aquaculture, even water desalination; the cooling systems of nuclear plants are sometimes clogged by their presence, causing costly shutdowns. This project explores the turbulence of Mediterranean waters: could jellyfish be agents of ecological and political resistance in the face of human-induced violence?
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