Eleni Mitrouska
Interactive Installation
My work "AWKWARD OBJECTS" aims to represent the trauma I experienced at the tender age of 10. It
consists of various tights with children's plastic toys and stuffed bears inside, selected from my
childhood, worn, entangled with each other as objects of material representation of the fragmented and
traumatized psyche. Using play as key elements of the work, I tried to create an atmosphere from which
innocence, surprise and other elements that outline childhood emerge. Two Arduino systems, the motion
and touch sensor were used to create the project. With the motion sensor PIR detecting the movement in
the space by turning on the lamp in front of the project and keeping it on for a period of time, as long as
there is movement in the space. But also the touch sensor, with fingerprint detection triggering the audio
from the DFPlayer Mini, which reports on the traumatic experience I had.
Eleni Mitrouska
Lives and works in Serres.
She graduated in the academic year 2021 from the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School
of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She was admitted in the academic year 2022 to
the Audiovisual Arts in the Digital Age of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts. Group exhibitions –
Participations : 2021 Residency, IFPA, The gendered body in performance/ The political through the
performativity of gender / 2nd International Meeting of Performance Art, Agia Varvara Park, Drama, 2019
Works of the 5th Painting Workshop of the Department of Visual & Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Municipal Gallery - Casa Bianca, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2019
Participation in the 216th Hideaway of Dimitris Alithinos at the courtyard of the School of Fine Arts of the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 2019 3rd Panhellenic Competition "Loukas
Venetoulias", Teloglion Art Foundation of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2018 Works of the 5th
Painting Workshop of the Department of Visual & Applied Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Municipal Gallery - Casa Bianca, Thessaloniki, 2017 "I like us", works of the
1st Painting Workshop of the 1st Workshop of the Department of Visual & Applied Arts of the Faculty of
Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, French Institute, Thessaloniki, 2016 Works of the 1st
Painting Workshop of the Department of Visual & Applied Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, French Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece
