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'''Emmanouil (Manos) Saklas''' (b. 1998, Athens) is an artist working across contemporary art, radio productions and electro-acoustic music.  
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'''Manos Saklas''' (b. 1998, Athens) is an artist working across contemporary art, radio production and electro-acoustic music. His practice engages with cultural artifacts and compositional methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as acoustic ecology, conceptual art, greek mythology, film-essay, and weather-sensing technologies—underscoring their sociopolitical resonances.
His practice engages with cultural artifacts and compositional methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as conceptual art, greek mythology, electronic music, film-essay, acoustic ecology, and weather-sensing technologies—underscoring their sociopolitical resonances.
 
  
In solo exhibition contexts, he often creates listening spaces with an emphasis to the physical manifestations of both environmental and synthetic material agencies. Far from merely interpreting the sonic, his visual works and writings feed into the audible part and are somewhat sonorous themselves. Akin to his nuanced sound pieces, they are often situated at the thresholds of perception, where sensory processes are being modulated, felt and observed. His practice seeks to catch a glimpse of the imperceptible, not to exhaust and actualize it, like science, or purely conceptualize it, like philosophy, but employing aesthetics to embrace the unseen flows, oscillations, and atmospheres that circulate us.  
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In solo exhibition contexts, he often creates listening spaces with an emphasis to both environmental sound matter and synthetic material agencies. Far from merely interpreting the sonic, his visual works and writings feed into the audible part and are somewhat sonorous themselves. His artworks are often situated at the thresholds of perception, where both formal nuances and sensory processes are being modulated, felt and observed.
  
Saklas' work has been featured internationally in a wide range of settings, including contemporary art galleries, cultural institutions, museums of modern art, concert halls, new music festivals, public spaces, clubs and academic symposia. He studied composition at the Xenakis KSYME-CMRC (Athens Conservatoire) and EMS Elektronmusikstudion (Stockholm), as well as visual art at the Royal Institute of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts, and Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo.
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Saklas work has been featured internationally in a wide range of settings, including galleries and museums, cultural and academic institutions, concert halls and music festivals, films and fashion, radio and public spaces. He studied visual art at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Royal Institute of Art, and Athens School of Fine Arts as well as electro-acoustic music and sound studies at Xenakis KSYME-CMRC and EMS Elektronmusikstudion.
  
 
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Manos Saklas (b. 1998, Athens) is an artist working across contemporary art, radio production and electro-acoustic music. His practice engages with cultural artifacts and compositional methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as acoustic ecology, conceptual art, greek mythology, film-essay, and weather-sensing technologies—underscoring their sociopolitical resonances.

In solo exhibition contexts, he often creates listening spaces with an emphasis to both environmental sound matter and synthetic material agencies. Far from merely interpreting the sonic, his visual works and writings feed into the audible part and are somewhat sonorous themselves. His artworks are often situated at the thresholds of perception, where both formal nuances and sensory processes are being modulated, felt and observed.

Saklas work has been featured internationally in a wide range of settings, including galleries and museums, cultural and academic institutions, concert halls and music festivals, films and fashion, radio and public spaces. He studied visual art at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Royal Institute of Art, and Athens School of Fine Arts as well as electro-acoustic music and sound studies at Xenakis KSYME-CMRC and EMS Elektronmusikstudion.

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