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Chara Kerasta (b. 1994, Levadeia, Greece) is an artist and graphic designer based in Athens. She studied Fine Arts and Art Science at the School of Fine Arts in Ioannina (2012–2017), and later earned an MFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2017–2019), where she presented her thesis project T-Here in July 2019. In 2015, she received

first prize in a monthly human portrait competition organized by Photonet magazine. In 2016, she interned in artwork production alongside photographer and visual artist Konstantinos Ignatiadis. Since 2015, she has participated in exhibitions and workshops in Thessaloniki, Ioannina, Andros, Levadeia, and Athens.

Her artistic practice explores the intersection of language, materiality, and fragmentary writing as a means of tracing a return — to home, to self. Through this ongoing body of work, she investigates the fragile construction of identity, meaning, and communication.

She is drawn to both the semantic weight of words and the visual presence of letters as form. For her, text becomes a neutral terrain — a temporary place to inhabit — one that she seeks to build spatially, as though constructing a shelter that also contains her. This spatialization of language is not merely formal; it is an act of grounding, a way of situating the self through the structures of writing.

Her work seeks the tension and balance between the physical and mental dimensions of objects. She often incorporates diverse materials and techniques — typography, charcoal, paper, light, and elements of enclosure or foundation — to explore how material presence can hold the trace of thought. Through these gestures, she aims to create spaces where language and matter coexist — fragile yet resonant.

© 2025 Chara Kerasta 

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