My practice responds to the ways sociopolitical conditions and events shape our individual and collective experience. It begins by observing historical and contemporary realities, often at the edge of a journalistic approach in both research and realization. Whether rooted in something specific, such as my homeland, or something more universal, these realities appear relevant to all of us. Each subject determines its medium and material to best convey the information. Thus my work moves across disciplines, taking substance and shape from the ideas themselves. Yet my process remains sculpture-centered: whether printmaking, photography, writing or sculpture itself, I engage with each work, attentive to materiality, form and spatial relationships. Once part of an installation, I embrace new meanings that emerge from the symbolism carried by its subject, medium or material. I am intrested in re-examining monumentality, not through grandeur and permanence but by asking what else deserves our attention and recognition. My installations create space for open discourse on unseen subjects, extending the present moment so undervalued struggles and experiences can breathe. I question our relationship to information, where images and statements are consumed rapidly, often undigested and unreflectively.

Pavlos Liaretidis (b. Thessaloniki, Greece) is a New York-based artist whose practice centers on sculpture and interdisciplinary installation. He completed his BFA Integrated Master’s at the School of Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and earned his MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2025, he was awarded the Immigrant Artist Program Fellowship at the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work bridges his Greek heritage with diasporic experience and contemporary discourse.