The 24-year-old Greek Amalia Meletiou is the creator of a modern Victory of Samothrace, Nike sculpture that will be presented in Griffin Gallery in Notting Hill, London until May 9.
This contemporary work of art is radically different from the original sculpture in the Louvre Museum. Meletiou’s sculpture is about 2.5-meters (8.2 feet) tall, with no head, very thin and with two-meter glass wings hanging from the ceiling. It illustrates the woman-symbol of Victory in the way it would be if it survived in Greece nowadays.
The sculpture is presented in the exhibition Ch-Ch-Ch Changing, under the title “Winged Victory. Winged Whaat? (Just. Do. It). Meletiou is a Goldsmiths University of London graduate of Greek origin.
The artist created the sculpture thinking of “the united Europe’s propaganda against Greece and the fact that the Greek Marbles are still in European museums,” she said.
Her version shows an ossified woman with wings as human bodies. Meletiou felt really pressed by the reactions abroad toward the Greek economic crisis and wanted to show people the Greek point of view. The sculpture is part of a series of contemporary, mythical, hybrid creatures that Meletiou continues to work on. Victory is the third and Medusa will be next. The materials she used were clay, iron, resin, fiberglass, gypsum and car paint.
“I left a cloth on her to cover her pride…”, said Meletiou. “Greeks can feel that their compatriots have a thoughtful, dynamic and creative presence abroad,” she concluded.
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