PAVLOS LIARETIDIS ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΛΙΑΡΕΤΙΔΗΣ
Artist statement
My recent work examines the value of life through the lens of social and political conditions that shape the environments I have inhabited, including Baltimore, MD and my home country, Greece. I begin from specific contexts marked by injustice—situations in which political irresponsibility leads to acts of violence, neglect, or catastrophe. These events often result in profound loss, from the death of human lives to the destruction of ecosystems and the erasure of natural habitats. My practice unfolds through sculpture, both as autonomous objects and as elements within larger installations. Within these environments, I often integrate two-dimensional works—drawings, prints, and text-based elements—creating layered narratives that operate across spatial and conceptual dimensions. While grounded in urgent contemporary issues, my work remains a philosophical inquiry into life, death, and transformation, engaging both personal and collective perspectives. Material exploration is central to my process. I am drawn to the symbolic weight materials carry, whether industrial or organic, and how these meanings shift through manipulation, juxtaposition, and placement. Through this ongoing dialogue with material and form, I seek to construct spaces where viewers can confront the fragility, resilience, and interconnectedness of life.
Biography
Pavlos Liaretidis (b. 1999, Thessaloniki, Greece) is a New York-based artist whose practice centers on sculpture and multidisciplinary installation. He completed his BFA Integrated Master’s at the School of Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and earned an 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.
Pavlos Liaretidis (b. 1999, Thessaloniki, Greece) is a New York-based interdisciplinary sculptor whose practice spans installation, printmaking and drawing to examine how material, space, and context shape human experience. Informed by his Greek heritage, his work weaves cultural references, historical undercurrents and contemporary realities into environments that are at once architectural and deeply affective. His installation, shown across Thessaloniki, Baltimore and New York, invite encounters that are both symbolic and visceral, reflecting on systems of memory, resilience and vulnerability. Pavlos received his MFA in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2024
In my recent work I have been examining the value of life. My pieces start from various social issues that plague places in which I have lived, such as Baltimore, MD or my home country, Greece. I am also concerned with traumatic social injustices in the international sphere such as, politically irresponsible positions lead to criminal actions or inactsadccsdvasvcadscasdcasdcasdcsacd asdc asd c asdc asd ca sdc adscasd c asdc asd csda c asdcasd c asdc asd cas dc asdc dsa csad cdsa c dsac dascdsions that end in disaster. The destruction that results takes many forms, among them the killing of fellow human beings and the elimination of fauna and flora.
My artworks are stand-alone sculptures or sculptures synthesized into installations. I frequently incorporate two-dimensional art such as drawings on paper, prints and text-based works into these environments. Although my pieces conceptually address confounding major issues of current affairs, they never cease to be philosophical quests about life, death and evolution operating on both personal and universal levels. In visual language, my works are a constant search for materials and compositions. I am interested in the various symbolisms that each material may already bear, as well as the symbolism it might develop through my own processing and placement.
.01/ 28/02/2023 no.2
28/02/2023 no.2, 2023
.02/ A Fence
A Fence
.03/ Connive
Connive
.04/ Unposting no.1
Unposting no.1
.05/ About a life
About a life
.06/ 28/02/2023
28/02/2023
.07/ After the Arrow
After the Arrow
.08/ Σ'αγαπώ
Σ'αγαπώ
.09/ By the kilo
By the kilo
.10/ Evia, Greece, Aug. 2023
Evia, Greece, Aug. 2023
.11/ Genesis
Genesis
.12/ A human figure
A human figure
.13/ Crossover
Crossover
.14/ Camera RAW #1
Camera RAW #1
.15/ Unposting no.3
Unposting no.3