Manos Saklas
Manos Saklas(b. 1998, Athens) is an artist whose practice unfolds across visual art and electro-acoustic music, examining the entanglements of sound, materiality, and technological mediation. Rooted in his studies at the Xenakis CMRC in Athens and EMS Stockholm, Saklas engages with cultural artifacts, and methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as conceptual art, ancient greek mythology, modernist compositional developments, psychoacoustics, and warfare technologies—an approach that underscores their latent sociopolitical resonances. Since 2020, he has been actively hosting discussions and artists talks bringing together visual artists, philosophers, composers, and art theorists.
In solo exhibition contexts, he often creates listening spaces that evoke a sense of introspection, combining rigorous methodologies with poetic sensibilities. Far from merely interpreting auditory nuances, his visual works feed into the audible part and are somewhat sonorous themselves. They do not only challenge sensory hierarchies; but intensify the listening experience itself, often taking place at the thresholds of perception, where cognitive processes are being modulated, heard and felt.
Saklas' practice seeks to catch a glimpse of the unseen, not to exhaust and actualize it, like science, or purely conceptualize it, like philosophy, but by employing aesthetics to embrace oscillations, flows, noises and atmospheres as incubators of possibility. [1]
- Links
- Otoliths in Flux, radio show on stegi.radio
- Interview, 2024
- Mastodon
