KAIROS

KAIROS is an ongoing visual and textual project that examines survival, healing, and the gradual reclamation of agency after experiences of violence, abuse and displacement.

Developed over fifteen years across multiple geographies—from Greece to Switzerland, from the Arctic to the desert—the project traces a personal trajectory that opens onto broader collective questions: how silence is produced and inherited, how safety is learned, and how intimacy, trust, and respect can be renegotiated after trauma.

Photographed primarily on 35mm film but mixing also digital and mobile phone, the images operate through association rather than illustration. Bodies merge with landscapes; houses, vehicles, and interiors appear as provisional architectures that oscillate between protection and confinement. Recurrent motifs such as food, touch, and desire function as gestures of autonomy and embodied choice, forming a visual language shaped by memory, sensation, and duration.

Text is central to KAIROS. Earlier writings emerged from lived experiences of abuse and normalized violence in a fragmentary first-person voice. The project’s current phase shifts toward post-trauma recovery: dismantling victimization and savior dynamics, unlearning Stockholm syndrome, and navigating boundaries, mutual care, and dignity. KAIROS resists trauma as spectacle, proposing presence as a form of resistance.

KAIROS from the Ancient Greek word καιρός, meaning the felt or right moment to deliver a message effectively.