Manos Saklas
Emmanouil (Manos) Saklas (b. 1998, Athens) is an artist working across visual art, radio productions and electro-acoustic music. Rooted in his interdisciplinary studies at Xenakis KSYME-CMRC & EMS Elektronmusikstudion as well as at Royal Institute of Art & Oslo Academy of the Arts, his practice engages with cultural artifacts and methodologies drawn from fields as diverse as conceptual art, greek mythology, electronic music genealogies, modernist compositional developments, and warfare technologies—underscoring their sociopolitical resonances.
In solo exhibition contexts, he often creates listening spaces, combining rigorous and intuitive methodologies, with an emphasis to material agencies and poetic nuances. 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 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 flows, oscillations, and atmospheres that circulate us.[1]
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[[Series: Contemporary Art, Electroacoustic Composition, Sound Studies , Radio art ]]
