Petros Moris is an artist based in Athens
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He has a BFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts and an MFA from the Goldsmiths University of London and has presented solo exhibitions in galleries and art spaces including TAVROS (Athens), Radio Athènes (Athens), Galeria Duarte Sequiera (Braga), Project Native Informant (London), Point Centre for Contemporary Art (Nicosia) and the Cyprus Embassy (Athens).
He has participated in international group exhibitions including A Rave Down Below (Eleusis European Capital of Culture 2023), the Athens Biennale (FOKAS, Athens 2021), The Last Museum (KW, Berlin 2021), the Singapore Biennale (National Gallery, Singapore 2019) and the 4th New Museum Triennial (New Museum, New York 2018).
He was also nominated for the DESTE Prize 2015 and was awarded the ARTWORKS 2018 Fellowship, the Onassis Foundation Scholarship (2017-19), and the Delfina Foundation Residency (2020 and 2022). He has been part of the art collective KERNEL, the online curatorial collaboration SIM, the curatorial project Radical Reading and runs the publication project AM Reading Club.
Liverpool Biennial 2025
'Ghost (ALONE) I, II, III, IV & V', 2024
Petros Moris explores how fragments of history can help us think differently about the future, transforming remnants of the past into symbols of renewal. The work exhibited here in at The Oratory is part of the artist’s ‘ALONE’ series of mosaic sculptures and reliefs.
The ‘ALONE’ project is inspired by a personal encounter which the artist had in an abandoned urban playground in his home city of Lamia, Greece – a site that was left unbuilt due to archaeological discoveries. Here he found a marble tile mosaic crafted by his parents in 1985 which had been painted over by a local graffiti artist with the word ‘ALONE’.
Moris was fascinated by how this intervention transformed the original work into
Petros Moris explores how fragments of history can help us think differently about the future, transforming remnants of the past into symbols of renewal. The work exhibited here in at The Oratory is part of the artist’s ‘ALONE’ series of mosaic sculptures and reliefs. The ‘ALONE’ project is inspired by a personal encounter which the artist had in an abandoned urban playground in his home city of Lamia, Greece – a site that was left unbuilt due to archaeological discoveries. Here he found a marble tile mosaic crafted by his parents in 1985 which had been painted over by a local graffiti artist with the word ‘ALONE’. Moris was fascinated by how this intervention transformed the original work into a multilayered artefact comprising the work of different people, raising questions about authorship and collaboration, and of the fates of urban spaces, craft traditions and personal heritage. He continues and builds upon this legacy through ‘ALONE’ – the outer layers of these recent works are tiled with discarded marble stone which he collected from his parents’ mosaic studio. Created using a mixture of digital fabrication and traditional techniques, the hybrid shape and animalistic forms of these five sculptures combine and layer different attributes, including references to ancient artefacts which are exhibited in an archaeological museum in his hometown. Further works from the ‘ALONE’ series are exhibited across other Liverpool Biennial 2025 venues Bluecoat and Walker Art Gallery. Showing at The Oratory at Liverpool Cathedral: Petros Moris
'Ghost (ALONE) I, II, III, IV & V', 2024
Showing at The Oratory at Liverpool Cathedral: Petros Moris
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Petros Moris, ‘Ghost (ALONE) I, II, III, IV & V’, 2024. Liverpool Biennial 2025 at The Oratory. Photography by Rob Battersby.
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Walker Art Gallery
William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8ELAccess facilities available
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Petros Moris, Ghost (ALONE) V, 2024. Courtesy the artist and TAVROS space. Photography by Stathis Mamalakis -
Petros Moris, Ghost (ALONE) III, 2024. Courtesy the artist and TAVROS space. Photography by Stathis Mamalakis
