Operating at the crossroads of folklore, occult modernism, and marginalized narratives, Malvina Panagiotidi crafts installations that reveal hidden tensions and thresholds of transformation. She weaves these strands into installations that operate as webs of tension, where conflicting elements expose anxieties, ruptures, and thresholds of transformation. Her works do not simply occupy space but interrogate it, asking whether time and environment can be slowed or suspended to create a moment for pause and reflection.
Research often underpins her process, drawing on overlooked histories and marginal stories that challenge assumptions and unsettle linear readings of the past and present. Rather than smoothing over differences, Panagiotidi emphasizes disjunctions, presenting bodies, forms, and sounds in fragmented ways that destabilize fixed meaning. Through this approach, her installations act as both a stage for confrontation and a site of renewal.
Central to her practice is an acute sensitivity to material. Substances appear caught in moments of transition: wax on the verge of melting, glass drooping as if still molten, or metal unraveling under its own strain. These transformations turn immaterial forces—such as sound, memory, or thought—into tangible structures. In her work, a soundwave may solidify as a delicate metal web, or an idea take shape as a fragile, suspended glass form. ...
