Bio:

Chrysa Kanari, a Cypriot artist based in London, investigates themes of history and politics through a haunting lens. With a BA in Fine Art from Lancaster University, where she was awarded the Freelands Painting Prize, and a Master’s in Painting from the Royal College of Art, Kanari’s work confronts the darker aspects of the human experience—love, war, crime, and death. Her recent group exhibitions, such as And you would have to believe it with the Critical Edge Collective at Copeland Gallery, explore how society remembers and forgets its own history.

Kanari’s practice delves into the aesthetics of horror, using archival and media-sourced imagery to question selective memory and representation. By reworking historical images, she pursues a process of unlearning, renegotiating narratives to reveal hidden truths through gestural, liquid strokes of paint. Her art challenges viewers to confront the abject and reconsider collective memory and the power of storytelling.