Paola Palavidi (Greece)

Paola Palavidi is one of the two founding members of Hypercomf along with fellow artist Ioannis Koliopoulos. Hypercomf is a multidisciplinary conceptual design artist identity. Established as a fictitious company profile in Athens in 2017, it has since been based on Tinos island, where the artists live and work the past 12 years. Through this artist identity they have set out to explore the relationship between nature and culture, domestication, industry and science. Hypercomf’s practice is motivated by the issues faced by small rural communities such as their own and design narratives of interdisciplinary collaboration and community engagement to address these diverse problematics. These processes are manifested as space activations, multimedia artworks and sustainable design prototypes and objects, structured around dynamic narratives that feature both organic and inorganic protagonists. Hypercomf have just completed “Film Seed Festival'' (2022) a crop powered film festival on Tinos island, “Zero Waste Tilos” (2022) residency by PCAI, researching circular waste management on island communities, “Marine Caves and Benthic Terrazzo” (2021), a Studiotopia program, focusing on marine pollution and protection of marine biodiversity, “Anthemis” (2021) a citizen-sourced digital herbarium of Syros in collaboration with Archipelago Network Syros.