yfantika glypta©

Artwork: Lust / Desire

©Maria Diamandi #yfantika_glypta© #yfantika_glypta

Sculpture corsage made from 476 hand-crafted mini snap-buttons on transparent tulle. The one breast is uncovered as a reference to the line ‘’ leave from immature lusts instead, pursue justice, loyalty, love and peace’’ from the Bible for ‘’About Lust’’ in Timotheos 2.

Artwork: Love / Detail

©Maria Diamandi #yfantika_glypta© #yfantika_glypta

A very long double sculpture dress that for its construction we used wooden, wedge-shaped joints covered in silk which constitute a very long -six meters- wooden lace, consisted of 360 wooden daises and in total 2.160 handmade petals covered from fabric, -as many as the degrees of a whole circle. These petals will be the material for the dress that without ending, connects itself to a similar second one, with the goal of creating a whole and a pair at the same time. It symbolizes love, which is an ideal that not only exhilarates but it may imprison as well.

Artwork: Lack / Detail

©Maria Diamandi #yfantika_glypta© #yfantika_glypta

The artwork focuses on the isolated moment, the ultimate moment of death of a product of our nature, a small rose tree, the leaves of which are sunk in liquid glass. This process exceeds time and makes the leaves last eternally. This is how the feeling of being motionless is described in the dress, the result of a sudden abandonment.

Artwork: Isolation / Desolation

©Maria Diamandi #yfantika_glypta© #yfantika_glypta

A hand-crafted sculpture corsage made from more than 5.000 fashioned buttons in double transparency, weaved together as web -a technique that was used in the dressmaking process the previous century, when the machines for this specific work hadn’t been invented. Actually for this construction more than 2.500 buttons have been used so far for the main body and another 2.500 buttons for the tail, as it is a nonstop work that keeps on extending like Penelope’s yfanto.

Artwork: Fear / Anger

©Maria Diamandi #yfantika_glypta© #yfantika_glypta

The accessory fashion which is intrinsically connected to the pain, the pin, acts as a basic structural material in the specific artwork. It’s either external –anger- or internal –fear. In this specific case it consists a modern armor that is used to change the way that others see the subject matter. Simultaneously it multiplies at a great extent as this handcrafted sculpture dress is made of millions of mini-pins arranged in a transparent tulle that weighs more than fifty kilos.

Artwork: Freedom / Departure

©Maria Diamandi #yfantika_glypta© #yfantika_glypta

A new interpretation of death as a form of freedom is explored by the specific sculpture costume. An inflexible sculpture that when it is buttoned up it has the rigid and unchanging form of the body the moment of death but when it is unbuttoned it looks like an ordinary garment that someone has left on the floor after his hasty flee towards freedom. It outlines the double death of Michelangelo that from my perspective, it’s not only about physical death but also about and perhaps primarily a lack of bonds-feelings.

Making good use of this knowledge that derives not only from her family background but from her own studies as well, in 2013 Maria Diamandi started researching and constructing the sculptural fashion items called #yfantika_glypta (copyright), through which she describes basic human emotions. This procedure is a long term route through which she tries to depict lust, desire, love, fear, anger, isolation, desolation, lack, freedom and death.

The tools for this depiction are her nonstop personal work and her incredible skills in sewing and dressmaking art, an art that she specialize in.

It is about 6 pieces of art: a sculpture corsage made from 476 hand-crafted mini snap-buttons on transparent tulle, a very long double sculpture dress that for its construction we used wooden, wedge-shaped joints covered in silk which constituted a very long -six meters- wooden lace, consisted of 360 wooden daises and in total 2.160 handmade petals covered from fabric, a sculpture dress made from millions of hand-crafted mini pins on transparent tulle that weighs more than fifty kilos, a glass dress that for its construction the leaves of a rose were used after they had been sunk in liquid glass, a hand-crafted sculpture corsage made from more than 5.000 fashioned buttons in double transparency, weaved together as web -a technique that was used in the dressmaking process the previous century, when the machines for this specific work hadn’t been invented –actually for this construction more than 2.500 buttons have been used so far for the main body and another 2.500 buttons for the tail, as it is a nonstop work that keeps on extending like Penelope’s yfanto – and finally an inflexible sculpture costume that when it is buttoned up it has the rigid and unchanging form of the body the moment of death but when it is unbuttoned it looks like an ordinary garment that someone has left on the floor after his hasty flee towards freedom.