Hariclia Michailidou’s sleek, computer generated collages adeptly merge science and imagination. Michailidou accesses a galactic realm that has the trappings of the universe as we known it: the circular movement in her work recalls start clusters or galaxies. But Michailidou is most intrigued by what we don’t know about the universe. Her vibrantly colored images, filled with particles and fragments of the cosmos, function like galactic mirages, using familiar symbols to re-imagine the infinitely evolving universe. The lulling, rhythmic qualities of Michailidou’s work echo the sublime ideas she explores. Her collages capture life’s endlessly circular processes of growth and re-navigation. By using familiar imagery to probe what we, as humans, can not fully grasp, Michailidou is able to bridge the gap between the conscious and unconscious, depicting worlds that are at once unreal and believable.

Born in Greece, Hariclia Michailidou  studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Académie Royale d'Architecture, and the Institute Saint-Luc in Belgium. She also studied Architecture at the Pratt Institute in New York and has exhibited internationally.