CHRISTIANA

Christiana is a South African artist based in Cyprus. 

She works in paint, charcoal, and mixed media, building a body of work that is dark, visceral, and deeply personal.

Her practice is a private meditation, made without an audience or a market in mind, just pure introspection. She paints to understand herself.

Christiana is self-taught. She considers this not a gap in her formation but the condition of it: her visual language belongs entirely to her because no institution shaped it.

She has founded Christilette as the house for her world and everything she makes.

Artist's quote

"What if the point of existence is simply to BE and to be perceived in every shape it can take, the grotesque as fully as the beautiful?

I know this need because I am full of it. A desire to create so intense it fills me to paralysis. I do not want to eat, to rest, to speak, to do anything but CREATE, OBSERVE and BE"

STUDIO VISIT

CHRSTIANA'S WORKS