Manos Saklas

Manos Saklas (b. 1998, Athens) is an artist working across visual art, radio productions and electro-acoustic music. Rooted in his studies at the Xenakis CMRC & EMS Stockholm, his practice engages with cultural artifacts and methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as conceptual art, greek mythology, modernist composition, and warfare technologies—underscoring their sociopolitical resonances.

In solo exhibition contexts, he creates listening spaces that evoke a sense of introspection, combining rigorous and intuitive methodologies, with an emphasis to material nuances and poetic sensibilities. Far from merely interpreting the sonic, his visual works and writings feed into the audible part and are somewhat sonorous themselves. Akin to his sound pieces, they are often situated at the thresholds of perception, where sensory processes are being modulated, felt and observed.

Saklas' practice seeks to catch a glimpse of the imperceptible, not to exhaust and actualize it, like science, or purely conceptualize it, like philosophy, but by employing aesthetics to embrace the unseen oscillations, flows, and atmospheres that circulate us.[1]

Links

• https://stegi.radio/podcasts/otoliths-in-flux/
• Interview, 2024
• Instagram
• Selected Participations