Tami Zafeiropoulou

The process, an often dismissed quality in our personal and professional lives, is to my practice and living a key direction, an element that forms and informs notions such as pleasure, evolution, growth, even success. These past few years, I have had the honour to collaborate with people and institutions influenced in multiple and critical ways, my career and practice as an artist and a human. Working with people in the field of psychotherapy and being part of their transformative, often healing journey, collaborating with groups or individuals both neurotypical and neurodivergent or with ones who have been chronically dealing with traumatic experiences and disorderly syndromes has been an intrinsic part of my practice. Accordingly, raising money for families in need, by voluntarily contributing to hospitals and other institutes, are all acts speaking about my need and desire to be part of a society consisting of benevolent people. Such collaborations can be highly constructive, as they allow me to earn new knowledge and to be introduced to alternative interactions. These collaborations usually involve experts on the fields of therapy and through them, discussions on new research areas are introduced to me. My art practice, informed and in dialogue with these subjects, is after being translated by the multiple participants of the workshops, interactions or collaborations, bringing to the surface a feedback which is always unique. As far as the workshops I initiate and design are concerned, matters of aesthetics are simplified, allowing for the axis of wellbeing to be in the centre of attention. Sharing together, finding gentle and safe ways of being together is the only goal, however the outcomes are exceptional. Such a process offers to the participants an introduction or an advanced set of self-esteem and self-acceptance. Above all, my aim when holding these spaces is to create a sense of solidarity, tenderness and self-love.