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Xenia Papadopoulou is a visual artist and a writer. She holds an MA in Fine Arts by the Athens School of Fine Arts and she has completed studies in art conservation (BA TEI Athens/ MSc Gothenburg University), photography (Valand Academy of Art and Design, Gothenburg University), visual communication (Malmö University) and Scandinavian art history (Uppsala University).

Balancing for most of her life in a condition between being a modern 'flâneur' and an economic migrant, she adopted languages and diverse cultural elements and created her own multicultural puzzle of perception and expression.

With art conservation as her main tool, she was able to live and work in key - for her - areas on the world map, always tracing the concept of the border, literally and metaphorically. Growing up in various and diverse areas of Greece, she then moved to the opposite side of the Mediterranean, Scandinavia. Afterwards she continued by wandering the US and the Mexican border, with the aim of analyzing Jean Baudrillard's 'realized utopia' and decoding what she perceives as ‘the mirroring of a principally acquired but unrealized self’. Finally, she returned to the Mediterrannean, this time at the juncture between West and East. First in the Turkish coast and then in the Eastern Nile Delta in Egypt, again exploring the concept of the border, both literally and metaphorically, as well as the long-suffering Middle East.

During this journey, she gathered experience in art styles and aesthetics from various periods (Prehistoric, Minoan, Roman, Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Neoclassical, Modern and Contemporary) which are reflected in her artistic practice. Being human-centered, she explores culture, matter, ideas and language, while manual labor is a constant in her work. She uses organic, fibrous materials such as fabric or paper, clay, gypsum, photography, video and text/sound.

As an echo of her wanderings, her first poetry collection was published in 2015 with the title 'The call of the pheasant'. Her poetry has been translated in German and Spanish.