AMPASTASIA

AMPASTASIA is a European artistic couple of the female artists Amparo Latorre Romero & Anastasia Zoi Souliotou. ampastasia.wordpress.com

The group was founded in January 2010 in Zurich, when both artsists collaborated in a video piece entitled ‘NO IDEA, then AMPASTASIA, then…IDEA’ . In this video both artists are kicking a painting in the Underground Shop Ville, Centraal Station, Zurich and are inviting the passers-by to participate.

Both artists have a strong background in Painting and, thus, Painting is the main medium as well as concept in AMPASTASIA projects.

Regarding their individual work, Anastasia believes strongly in investigating the interplay of space and time in transport networks of contemporary metropolises which inspires her to create multidimensional realities, whilst Ampa’s approach brings our attention back to the human body, the subject that undergoes the entire process and the consequently experience of psychological impacts and reactions.

In To be Painted exhibition AMPASTASIA gave a performance at the exhibition opening in degreeart.com gallery, Vyner Street, London. ampastasia.wordpress.com/exhibitions/to-be-painted

British Art Historian Rosalind Mc Kever wrote a review about the exhibition. untoldlondon.org.uk/articles/read/mind_the_gap