Faye Magkanari

Faye Magkanari’s work stems from a need to explore how Orthodox religion connects to memory, culture, and her experience as a woman. Growing up in Greece, religion was woven into everyday life-shaping how people behaved and what they believed. While she is not especially religious, she remains deeply aware of how faith influences social norms, particularly around gender. Her work reflects on this complex mix of personal belief, tradition, and inherited expectations.

These themes continue to affect and inspire Magkanari, though she is also curious about where her practice might evolve-exploring ideas not always tied so directly to religion. Broadly, she is interested in the body, especially the female body, and in symbols that are easily recognised and widely accepted, regardless of their form. She works across clay, casting, metal, and wood, though she primarily identifies as a ceramist and secondly as an interdisciplinary artist. Rather than delivering a clear critique or telling a single story, her work seeks to open up space for reflection on what we inherit, what we carry forward, and what we quietly resist. Whether her work makes viewers feel uneasy or understood, she hopes it invites them to sit with the complicated intersections of faith, womanhood, and cultural memory.

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