Faye Papargyropoulou: Selected works, 2024-2025
New Love, 2025
New Love_When everything starts from scratch. Fresh. Raw. Unknown. And you’re thrown into it, to explore, to make it yours, to taste it like it’s the first time… Again.
New love_When life suddenly explodes in color. Overflowing. Loud. Bright. Too much, in the best way. Everything sharpens. Sounds. Smells. Feelings. There’s no more grey, just black and white, intensity, extremes, color cranked all the way up. Everything’s on max. Everything’s out of control. Your favorite song is blasting. Joy can’t even find the words. And your stomach has tiny people dancing latin non-stop.
New love_And you’re experimenting. You don’t know the rules. There are no rules. You go in blind. Just your instinct. Primitive. Raw. Is it this, or that? Do I say it, or stay quiet? Will it work, or will it burn? Will it lead somewhere? Will I be happy in the end? Isn’t that the question? Isn’t that what we’re all chasing? A new love that flips the world, that changes everything, forever.
From Fragility to Stability, 2024
Looking at the delicate dance of dependence and support that exists between forces of vulnerability and resilience. Imagining a sculpture in motion, two figures, one fragile and translucent like glass, the other solid and rooted like stone. They lean toward each other, neither fully standing alone, each balancing precariously between falling and being held.
This interplay speaks of life’s cyclical nature: in times of strength, we hold those who are weak, and in times of fragility, we find ourselves cradled by those we once held. Strength and vulnerability are not opposites but entwined partners in a constant exchange of roles. Who holds whom? Perhaps the answer is both, for each needs the other to stand, to endure, to create the harmony we call stability.
In this project, I have used two materials. Porcelain embodies vulnerability, delicate and fragile in appearance, yet it is a remarkably strong substance. Soaked in foam, it evokes the sensation that it might shatter at any moment, as though on the verge of breaking apart. And yet, it is precisely these porcelain fragments, in harmony with the solid spheres of black high-fired clay, that sustain the sculpture’s balance. Together, they hold the tension between fragility and strength, instability and grounding.
Space Boy, 2024
Space Boy is a hybrid of earth and cosmos, a figure born of clay yet adorned with stardust. His form is both human and ethereal, a dreamer caught between realms, reaching for infinity.
Captions
- New Love #3, 2025, White & grey stoneware clay with porcelain details. Various glazes, 33cm L x 31cm W x 30cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
New Love #4, 2025, White & black stoneware clay. Mat white crawl glaze, 30cm L x 30cm W x 30cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
New Love #5, 2025, White & grey stoneware clay. Mat white crawl glaze, 30cm L x 30cm W x 33cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
New Love #6, 2025, Black stoneware clay with porcelain. Various glazes, 25cm L x 25cm W x 36cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
New Love #7, 2025, White stoneware clay. Mat white lava glaze, 34cm L x 34cm W x 33cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
New Love #8, 2025, Grey & white stoneware clay. Blue lava glaze & various glazes, 42cm L x 35cm W x 33cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
New Love #9, 2025, White stoneware clay. Mat white glaze, 36cm L x 30cm W x 33cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
New Love_10, 2025, White stoneware clay. Various glazes, 25cm L x 27cm W x 28cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas - From Fragility to Stability #01, 2024, Black stoneware clay and porcelain, 37cm L x 27cm W x 27cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
From Fragility to Stability #02, 2024, Black stoneware clay and porcelain, 30cm L x 32cm W x 26cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
From Fragility to Stability #03, 2024, Black stoneware clay and porcelain, 30cm L x 13cm W x 22cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
From Fragility to Stability #04, 2024, Black stoneware clay and porcelain, 19cm L x 15cm W x 18cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
From Fragility to Stability #05, 2024, Black stoneware clay and porcelain, 13cm L x 13cm W x 19cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas - Space Boy #01, 2024, Black stoneware with glossy glaze, 18cm L x 18cm W x 26cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
Space Boy #02, 2024, Gray stoneware with porcelain and matte glaze, 15cm L x 25cm W x 20cm H, Photo Credit: Apostolis Koukousas
