Nomas* Projects / Art, Dundee

Something Feral Rests

Something Feral Rests

Isavella Kladaki (b. 1988) is a visual artist, Αrt Psychotherapist and curator, whose practice unfolds at the intersection of art, psychoanalytic theory, and therapeutic experience. Her work centres on the creation of spaces, psychic, material, and transitional, where form can hold and transform what is raw, unspoken, or unresolved. Working primarily with ceramic sculpture and painting, she approaches form as a containing body: a structure shaped by conscious gesture but also open to the emergence of unconscious content during the process. Her practice is process-based, grounded in the evolving, embodied relationship with each material. Open to experimentation, she allows the material to speak through cracks, textures, and surfaces that seem to carry memory. At the core of her work lies an exploration of containment, care, and relation. Drawing from psychoanalytic concepts, she is particularly interested in how psychic and tactile surfaces shape experience, and how the artwork can become a space of holding fragments of the unprocessed and the subconscious, leading to the integration of potential interpretations and narratives. Her work engages with the relational, whether through clay, therapeutic practice, or collaboration and is shaped by a desire to create spaces that are vulnerable, open and quietly transformative through the co-creation of meaning.

She studied Art History and Theory of Art at the Athens School of Fine Arts and holds a Masters in Art Psychotherapy. She has worked extensively within public psychiatric settings and in 2020 organized the first pilot art psychotherapy group in a public hospital clinic. Since 2024, she is a scientific associate of the First Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Athens. She is also the founder of CYPHER, a non-profit artist-run space based in Kypseli focusing on art, dialogue, and community-based practices.

Artist's Website

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