Manos Saklas
Emmanouil (Manos) Saklas (b. 1998, Athens) is an artist working across contemporary art, radio productions and electro-acoustic music. 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 by employing aesthetics to embrace the unseen flows, oscillations, and atmospheres that circulate us.
Saklas' works have been exhibited and performed internationally, in settings ranging from contemporary art galleries, cultural institutions, academic symposia, and public spaces, to concert halls, new music festivals, clubs and conservatoires. He studied composition at Xenakis KSYME-CMRC at Athens Conservatoire & EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm, along with Visual Art at Royal Institute of Art (Mejan), Athens School of Fine Arts, and Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo.
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