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  "description": "Artist in Focus: Yorgos Agrotes works with instability, friction and material resistance, turning pressure into structure rather than release.",
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  "textContent": "**Yorgos Agrotes**\n\n**Born:**\n1997 in Famagusta, Cyprus\n\n**Nationality:**\nGreek\n\n**Based in:**\nAthens, Greece\n\n**Medium:**\nSculpture, installation, mixed media and performance\n\n**Website:**\nyorgosagrotes.com\n\n**Instagram:**\n@yorgosagrotes\n\n* * *\n\nArtist in Focus – Catapult – The New Munchies Art Club\n\nSubmit\n\n## Where pressure does not resolve but accumulates:\n\nThere is no clean surface in **Yorgos Agrotes’ work**. Oil spreads across scanner plastic, pigment pools on canvas paper, metal vibrates under tension. Nothing settles. What appears as painting is already in the process of shifting into object, into sound, into residue.\n\nHis landscapes are not depictions but accumulations. Emotions, memory, and material collide without seeking harmony. Yellow and green recur not as aesthetic preference but as disturbance. They carry contamination, decay, and vitality at once. The image does not stabilize the gaze. It holds it in discomfort.\n\n****Yorgos Agrotes**** __user_vamp0067__ , 2026 - Resin, plastic, silicone, metallic chopstick, tire-ups, screws 22.5 × 24 × 12 cm Image courtesy of the artist.****Yorgos Agrotes**** __The Scarecrow__ , 2025 Foam, iron, wood, kompoloi stones, aluminium and magnets Various dimensions Photo: Spyros Charalampous - Image courtesy of the artist.\n\nAgrotes’ practice extends beyond the canvas into hybrid instruments and spatial installations. In the recent exhibition  _Massage Platz_ at Shower, Seoul, he presented works alongside a sound performance titled  _Child’s Play_ , using self-built instruments that oscillate between noise and structure. These objects refuse classification. They are neither fully musical nor fully sculptural. They function through tension.\n\nYorgos Agrotes - Performance - Photo Joseph Lee\n\nAcross media, his method remains consistent: he does not remove pressure to produce relief. He sustains it long enough for another state to emerge. Relaxation, in this logic, is not a return to balance but a threshold reached through friction.\n\nMaterial is never neutral in his work. It resists, stains, vibrates, leaks. And it is precisely within that resistance that form appears.\n\n**Instagram Yorgos Agrotes**\n\n* * *\n\n##  Notable Artworks and Exhibition Views\n\n****Yorgos Agrotes**** __Afentiko Affection__ , 2025 Foam, oil paint glowing in the dark, 3D printed negative head 26 × 26 × 3.5 cm Image courtesy of the artist.****Yorgos Agrotes**** “Bat Bat Bad” 2025 Red Soil, Artificial Fossil, Metal and Mixed Media 9x23x7cm Photography: @spyr.char - Spyros Charalampous\n\n****Yorgos Agrotes**** : (left) __Corrupted Draft__ , 2026 Oil and pigments on canvas paper 23 × 20 cm (right) “Aftermath” 2025 Oil on Plywood Panel, (Wall Construction) 30x40cm - Photo: Spyros Charalampous\n\n****Yorgos Agrotes:**** Installation view of “Massage Platz” at SHOWER, Seoul Curated by Haram Kang****-**** Photography: Joseph Lee Courtesy of the artist and SHOWER ****Yorgos Agrotes**** (Detail) “Scanner Pressure”, 2025 Oil on plastic scanner 48 x 55 x 4 cm - Installation view of “Massage Platz” at SHOWER, Seoul Curated by Haram Kang - Photography: Joseph Lee Courtesy of the artist and SHOWER****Yorgos Agrotes:**** “Monocabino” 80x30x30cm 2025 Fibreglass, resin, plastic, foam - Photo: Irene Soukou\n\n****Yorgos Agrotes**** : “Spounta” 2025 Foam, redsoil, oil paint 9x5x5cm Photo: Irene Soukou (right)\n\n* * *\n\n### Want your work featured and listed in our growing Archive?\n\nCatapult curates artists and exhibitions built for long term visibility.\n\n Submit to Catapult → \n\n* * *\n\n## More Artists and Venues from Greece",
  "title": "Yorgos Agrotes: Instability as Method",
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