BEING_ME

Embracing the power of movement, my practice begins with change as a continuous force that reshapes our position in relation to others and to the spaces we inhabit. I approach art as a process of co-existence, where to create means to be-with, and where transformation becomes both method and subject. Working through in-situ interventions and interactive installations that integrate technology, I engage with place not as a backdrop but as an active collaborator, where movement, language, and spatial experience intersect. Body, memory, and identity are interwoven within this process, generating collective awareness and opening spaces where the unexpected may emerge.

At the core of this practice lies a refusal of a single perspective and an invitation to shared encounters. By dissolving the distance between artist and audience, my work creates environments where relation itself becomes part of the artistic process, giving rise to new sensuous connections, retrieving forms of belonging as modes of being, and inviting reflection on how we exist through difference and language within spatiotemporal relations.

BIO_GRAPHY

Christiana Dafni Tatsi (b. 1989) is an artist and researcher based between Greece and Spain. Her practice combines interactive installations, public-space interventions, new media, and performance, exploring memory, existence, and collective identity. With a background in philosophy and social studies, she integrates art, cultural theory, and somatic practices into her work. She leads the workshop Questioning on Move, which focuses on somatic interaction and embodied inquiry.

She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), where her research explores the artist as a metaobject and the merging of observer and observed. In 2024, she received a research grant from the Diputación de Cuenca and UCLM for Open_Space, and was awarded Second Prize at Premios Trashumancias 2.4. In 2025, she was awarded the Santander Bank Grant for Predoctoral Research Staff (Beca Santander | Ayuda Económica para Personal Investigador Predoctoral). Her artistic research includes fieldwork in rural Greece, residencies in São Paulo, Castilla-La Mancha, and Valencia, and a structured research project developed between Shanghai and Nanchang, China. She is currently conducting research at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

EXHIBITIONS 

2025:Opening_New_Spaces, ¨¨  Why are you here¨? and ¨  Γιατί βρίσκεσαι εδώ¨ , Group Exhibition,  ¨¨  I am-I am not¨¨  , Aether Art Space, Glifada, Athens, Greece.

2025: Opening_New_Spaces, ¨΄ Why are you here?¨¨, Group Exhibition Platforms Projet 2025, Tabacco
Factory, Athens, Greece.

2025:Opening_New_Spaces, ¨Γιατί βρίσκεσαι εδώ¨, Group Exhibition 10 years DIPOLA, Municipal ArtGallery “Dimitrios Mitaras”, Chalcis, Greece.

2025:Opening_New_Spaces, ¨΄ Why are you here¨¨,  Group Exhibition 10 years DIPOLA, Palazzo Marotti Rome, Italy. 

2024:Opening_New_Spaces_Lewneidio, Group Exhibition Latomeio Project, Lewneidio Arcadia, Greece.

2024: Open_Space_Tragacete, Group Exhibition Trashumancias, Tragacete, Spain.

2022: Participation in Legs Festival, a performance art festival with the investigation art project Open_Space at Bageion Cultural Space, Athens, Greece.

2022: Plastic_Space_Room: Solo show, Faculty of Fine Arts Ioannina, Greece.

2021:  Plasma_2_The Game, Solo show, Faculty of Fine Arts Cuenca, UCLM, Spain.

2021: Cities: Poleis, Solo show, Faculty of Fine Arts Cuenca, UCLM, Spain.

2020:  A lado de un nombre- Orates kai aorates opseis tou egw (Ορατές και αόρατες όψεις του εγώ) Photographic- site-specific installation, Group exhibition curating Laura Collado, Faculty of Fine Arts Cuenca, UCLM, Spain.

2020: Plasma_1_The Trace, Solo show, Faculty of Fine Arts, Ioannina.

2019: Collective exhibition at Dimitris Jatzis Space, “Against Women’s Violence,” in collaboration with the Region of Epirus and the University of Ioannina, Greece.

2018: Collective exhibition at the “Karolos Papoulias” Congress Hall within the framework of the 1st Interdisciplinary Symposium “When Should We Die (PPP),” 2018, Ioannina, Greece.