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Nektarios Pachiadakis

Strk25 · Mixed media · 100×100 · 2025 · Greece

Nektarios Pachiadakis graduated with distinction from the School of Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, specializing in painting. He also holds a Master’s degree ty in Audiovisual Arts and Arts in the Digital Age, from the Ionian University, which he completed with distinction. He has received an Excellence Award from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), as well as an award from the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle, where his work has been included in the museum’s permanent collection. In 2025, he represented Greece at the 10th Beijing International Biennale with his work “Living Stone – Moni Kapsa.” He has held four solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. His works are included in private and public collections in Greece and internationally. His research focuses on the creation of artworks inspired to stone, rocks, nature, tradition, culture, and the psychogeography of Crete. /…/ In the work STRK 25, the image is constructed through a dense network of fragments.Each unit functions as the carrier of an individual moment—an excerpt of memory, atrace of an event, an incomplete narrative. The whole does not seek coherence butrather the simultaneous coexistence of heterogeneous experiences.The mixed technique incorporates different materialities and gestures, creating a fieldwhere the painterly, the graphic, and the collaged elements enter into dialogue.Images of social action, urban landscapes, and ambiguous figures are interspersedwith interruptions of silence—dark patches that function like gaps in memory orunspoken zones of experience.Through repetitions, chromatic pulses, and morphological counterpoints, the workproduces visual “resonances.” Each fragment reflects another, transferring traces ofmeaning from one area to the next, much as memory carries emotional andexperiential charges between present and past.The work proposes a landscape of consciousness that is fragmented yet active: anarchive of moments that does not tell a single story but composes a field of multiplevoices. It functions as a visual map of the way experiences, social events, andpersonal traces persist—return—and resonate.

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