Manos Saklas
Emmanouil (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 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 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 practice is often situated at the thresholds of perception, where both formal nuances and sensory processes are being modulated, felt and observed. Saklas 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.
His work has been exhibited internationally in a wide range of settings, including contemporary art galleries and museums of modern art, cultural institutions and academies, concert halls and music festivals, clubs and public spaces. He studied visual art at the Royal Institute of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts, and Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, as well as composition at the Xenakis KSYME-CMRC at Athens Conservatoire and EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm.
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