The
Human Gaze

Η σειρά με τον τίτλο “The human gaze” αποτελείται από ζωγραφικούς πίνακες, υβριδικά πορτρέτα, αποτυπώσεις καταστάσεων. Αποτελεί μια βιωματική μελέτη μέσα από την Ιστορία των διαχρονικών τάσεων του ανθρώπου (σε όλους τους πολιτισμούς αλλά και σε όλα τα επίπεδα του πολιτισμού), προς τον ανιμισμό και τις σχηματοποιήσεις και θεωρήσεις του σώματος. Η αρχή του αποδιοπομπαίου τράγου, ο τοτεμισμός, από τον μύθο του Πυγμαλίωνα μέχρι το γκόλεμ, το σώμα ως μηχανή, τα σύγχρονα εμφυτεύματα, ή οι απελπισμένες κραυγές των Ταμαγκότσι, όλα μαζί συνυπάρχουν μέσα στο φαντασιακό του σύγχρονου ανθρώπου.
Βασικός άξονας η ανθρώπινη μάτια απέναντι στη φύση,όπου το ζώο και η ύλη αποσιωπούνται σε προσωπίδες στο corpus μιας εικονογραφίας που μεταβάλλεται υπαινικτικά.

The series titled “The human gaze” consists of paintings, hybrid portraits, situational impressions. It is an experiential study through the history of the timeless tendencies of man (in all cultures and at all levels of civilization) towards animism and the formations and considerations of the body. The scapegoat principle, totemism, from the myth of Pygmalion to the golem, the body as a machine, modern implants, or the desperate cries of the Tamagotchi, all coexist together within the imaginary of modern man.
The main axis is the human eye towards nature, where animal and matter are silenced into visors in the corpus of an iconography that is suggestively transformed.

Oil on canvas 120 x120 cm 2021Oil on canvas 120 x120 cm 2021

Rooster

Oil on canvas
120 x120 cm
2021

Oil on linen 120 x120 cm 2020Oil on linen 120 x120 cm 2020

Sheep

Oil on linen
120 x120 cm
2020

Oils on linen 100 x 100 cm 2018Oils on linen 100 x 100 cm 2018

Pig

Oils on linen
100 x 100 cm
2018

Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm 2017Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm 2017

Dog

Oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
2017

Rooster

Oil on canvas
120 x120 cm
2021

Sheep

Oil on linen
120 x120 cm
2020

Pig

Oils on linen
100 x 100 cm
2018

Dog

Oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
2017

Oil on canvas 120 x120 cm 2021
Rooster

Oil on canvas
120 x120 cm
2021

Oil on linen 120 x120 cm 2020
Sheep

Oil on linen
120 x120 cm
2020

Oils on linen 100 x 100 cm 2018
Pig

Oils on linen
100 x 100 cm
2018

Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm 2017
Dog

Oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
2017

Zoi Pirini is an artist who lives and works in Athens and Loutraki, Greece.
She is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts (Athens 2003).
From 2003 to 2013, she has been working with the concept of Lighting design (visual and architectural), having carried out studies and projects in Greece and abroad. In 2011 she founded Lab2Art, an art school  which she runs until today. She is a member of the artistic group ”For Cancel”, founder of Festivart and co-founder of the artistic | research platform “TILT platform”. In 2020 she designs the educational platform “futureboards” which will be implemented in 2021 with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Education of Greece.
She is a member of the Greek Chamber of Fine Arts.

Zoi, uses a variety of expressive media, such as painting, photography, video, sculpture, etc. while processing her works. 

She has presented her work in several exhibitions in Greece and abroad with the most recent ones being the following

2025

∙“Breath” | sculpture

Exhibition “The Emper’s song” // MISC Athens

Curated by Sylvia Sachini & Florent Frizet

2024

∙“Lost in stars” | Installation

Exhibition “We are all made of stars” // MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts,

Curated by Domna Gounari, MOMus Curator

For Cancel

∙Presents part of her work ” Parasites ” | Sculpures.

Platforms project | Public Tabacco Factory, Athens.

∙Presents part of her work ” Clean Cuts ” // Acrylics on canvas.

Art Athina | Zappeion Hall, Mama Contemprary, Athens.

2023

∙Presents part of her work “Family Portraits” // Acrylics on canvas.

Art Athina | Zappeion Hall, Mama Contemprary, Athens .

∙Presents the works  “Rejected” // Video  and  “Through the Wasteland // Video “For Cancel”

Exhibition: “1922 – 2022  Exit – Way out ” former Public Tabacco Factory, Athens.

2022

∙Presents part of her work “The Human Gaze” // Oils on Linen.

Art Athina | Zappeion Hall, Mama Contemprary, Athens .

∙”JOIN US” Installation

| Platforms project | School of Fine Arts, Athens,

“For Cancel”.

∙”Go Plastic” // “Be Immortal”, installation.

Exhibition: Safe Mode // Amplified Realities. Tilt Platform at Project Gallery, Athens. «For Cancel» [ Zoi Pirini | Takis Zerdevas | Makis Faros].

∙Presents part of her work “Organics” // Sculptures .

Hellenic Foundation for Culture, Athens.

2021

∙”Force Majeure”, Installation

Exhibition: “Symbols and iconic ruins”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.

∙”Lick” Installation

Exhibition: Platforms project, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens.

∙”Within” Installation

Exhibition: “Symplexis” Paphos, Cyprus.

∙”Through the wasteland” Video

Miden Festival | gallery [.BOX], Milan.
“For Cancel” | Takis Zedevas | Zoe Pyrini | Makis Faros).

2020

∙”Gridfields” Installation,

[ Zoi Pirini & Makis Faros ]

Exhibition: Theorimata (On History),
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.

2019

∙”Orphanes Images” // photo collage,

Norrkoping City Museum, Sweden.

∙”Après vous” // installation

Exhibition: Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens.

∙”Hospital Interns” // video installation

[ For Cancel ] Exhibition: “IASIS” Tilt Platform, Loutraki, Greece.

∙ “Lines” // Light installation, In Situ installation

within the context of Ziria Music Festival. [ For Cancel & Michalis Antonopoulos ].

∙”Rooms” // In Situ installation

within the context of Ziria Music Festival. [ For Cancel & Michalis Antonopoulos ].

2018

∙”near the baseLand” // Video installation.

Solo show of the artistic group [ For Cancel ], Gallery Beton 7 Athens.

∙”Through The Wasteland” Video art

with the artistic group [ For Cancel ], Exhibition: Platforms project , Athens school of fine arts.

2014

∙ “Jazz” // Solo show | mixed media.

Jazz Loft Festival – Athens.

2013

∙Presents part of her work “Parallel Portraits” //  Oils on canvas

Vrysaki, Athens.

2011

∙Presents part of her work “traces” made between 08′ -10′

Exhibition:  “PAINT!” – Municipal Art Gallery, Korinthos, Greece

2008

∙ “in between” // Aquarells,

 Exhibition: “Lights on art” //  Corinth

2007

∙”Graduates”

Municipal Art Gallery, Mithymna, Lesvos.

2004

∙Solo exhibition

Gallery Art Space, Athens, Greece.

∙Center of Visual Arts

G. Karidis- Athens, Greece.

2003

∙ Thesis presentation // Graduates –

Athens school of fine arts – Athens, Greece.

1999

∙Group exhibition –

Municipal Art Gallery, Mytilene, Lesvos.