Tami Zafeiropoulou

Tami (b. 1994) is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in design and education, and an MFA in Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art, to be completed in August 2026. Her practice has primarily employed clay, alongside other media, as a means to address personal and collective events, traumas, raptures, pleasures, restrained emotions, and existential questionings. Over the past year, she has expanded her practice into performative media, exploring sound in its physicality and its capacity to carry both voice and vibration as forces emerging from within. She also works with video as a medium, enabling alternative perceptions of what’s canonically imposed with regard to gaze, time and space. Sound, breath, touch, and vision, often approached through meditative or ritualistic processes for the axes of her methodology. 

Her work asks how darkness and sadness, as well as light, desire, and pleasure, can coexist, and it does so through an autoethnographic lens. How can an equilibrium be imagined, idealised, or instrumentalised within the oxymoronic structures of life? How can artistic processes function as therapeutic or releasing mechanisms when engaging with our inner voices or with overwhelming feelings of rejection or abandonment? 

Her practice investigates emotional states and behavioural patterns, aiming to confront trauma directly and bearing the consequences of making it either haptic or visible. Her sculptures, performances, and paintings operate as responses that seek affinities between autonomous and sociopolitical trajectories, carrying a certain historicity that still forms the current.