Anna Zervou (Iris AZ)
Visual artist

Anna Zervou (Athens, GR) is a visual artist, whose work explores repetitive patterns, uncanny materials, and geometrical structures, mostly through a continual, almost compulsive study of these elements. In her practice, which varies from small scale drawings and paintings, to immersive murals or sculptures occupying or adapting to the public space, touches on circular and spiral schemes in order to speak about self-discovery, balance and boundless potential. By focusing on this never-ending shapes, Zervou traces the themes of interconnectedness and co-existence, their risks, challenges and pleasures. Animals, objects, non-human, and more-than-human species appear as recurring subjects in her work drawing on her surroundings, allowing for her outcomes to become nearby her auto-ethnography and vernaculars, her personal times and spaces. For the past 15 years she has worked on several creative fields varying for graphic design to street art, whilst at the same time persuing her own artistic practice. Her murals have been included in several festivals and other artistic frameworks such as [Stray Art Festival (Syros, 2022), Karlovasi Street Art Festival (Samos, 2017)] and in group exhibitions such as [Abstract Urban Art Exhibition / Delirium Art Gallery (Athens, 2023), "Necessity" Group Exhibition / Platanos parking (Kifisia, 2017),] amongst others. She has closely worked and collaborated with Cacao Rocks on several projects from 2021. She is currently researching a new body of work bringing together the characteristics and subjects of themes such as the fear of failure, the effort for consistency, and the meaning of pushing forward when surviving a suspended state of life.

You can find her work here: @irisaz_1