Chrys Roboras

Greek painter Chrys Roboras has a love for anthropocentric portraiture which allows her to “study the human soul.”

She studied at Seaforth Tafe College in Sydney, Australia, and continued her studies in Greece through AKTO (Middlesex University, England) where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Technology.

She says, “My involvement in the stories I paint is sometimes as if I participate as the main hero or as a protagonist or as an eyewitness and, at other times, I give the leading role generously elsewhere, holding only the role of an observer.”

Chrys alternates between two depictions of humans in her works - one more outlined and filled with various colours and shapes as if the human form is a “container” of emotions, thoughts, and memories. The other, a more realistic representation of the human form - here, the heroes live and breathe in a dreamy atmosphere.

She shares, “Observing my works, it is obvious that people are in a constant motion most of the time. They come from somewhere or they go somewhere. Even when you are stable, you understand what they have in mind is the next step. The Present, the Past, and the Future are imprinted in their walking, their course.”

The human condition - the individual sense of existence - is a central theme in Chrys’s work and stems from her own experience as a Greek of the diaspora, between the two cultures.

Chrys has exhibited her work in solo and group shows across the world and has participated in the Biennale of Beijing, The Other Art Fair by Saatchi, and received an Emerging Artist Award in Dubai, among others. Her work can also be found at the Museum of Fine Arts in Las Vegas.

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