OPTICS
Angeliki Koutsodimitropoulou
Description
OPTICS is a series of reflective objects that function as perceptual devices. Positioned in space like little portals, they transform the familiar surface of the mirror into unstable optical fields.
By destabilising one of the most familiar architectural surfaces, the objects introduce subtle ruptures in the way space is normally perceived, opening ambiguous visual environments. They disrupt the act of seeing: What appears on their surfaces resists immediate recognition, producing uncertain images that invite speculation and imagination about what’s being perceived.
OPTICS is part of an ongoing research on spatial surrealism, where familiar spatial elements are transformed into devices that expand and destabilise perception.
Angeliki
Koutsodimitropoulou
Angeliki Koutsodimitropoulou is an architect and spatial designer working across physical and virtual environments, installations, and visual identities. She holds postgraduate degrees from the Spatial Strategies programme at Weissensee Art Academy in Berlin and from the School of Architecture at the University of Cyprus. Her research focuses on the relationship between digital art forms and physical space, with particular attention to the processes that shape spatial perception.
She designs small-scale spaces, objects and spatial installations that challenge conventional notions of reality. Her work has been presented at Milan Design Week, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Dresden, the Haus der Statistik in Berlin, and in exhibitions across Cyprus and Greece. She runs New Kinds of Space, a design studio engaged in architecture, stage and product design.
Her practice investigates how spatial experience is structured through anticipation and symbolic reading. By subtly distorting scale, function and spatial cues, she develops hybrid artefacts and environments that destabilise habitual perception and propose uncanny ways of inhabiting space.