Spanning across painting, drawing, sculpture, and video, Zeta Tsermou’s work is a deep exploration of the female experience. She delves into how concepts of desire and identity are shaped and transformed by sexuality, age, motherhood, social norms, and politics. Through an intuitive process of cutting, pasting, isolating, and juxtaposing, she reimagines the body in both its physical and metaphysical dimensions, exposing intimate details while forging new relationships between them. The body, fragmented, yet ever-present, becomes both the central theme and the vehicle for her ongoing artistic inquiry. 

Tsermou draws from both personal experience and her cultural heritage, using these as raw materials for her work. Distilled and transformed into shapes and colours, her work challenges conventional imagery, reconfiguring familial narratives into a new visual language.

Through her carefully staged compositions and an attention to detail, she creates an immersive experience, drawing viewers into the complexity of her vision. Her background in architecture informs the delicate balance between the solid and the fluid in her compositions—structural forms and free-flowing geometries coexist in harmony.

Her two-dimensional works and sculptures form environments that expose the multifaceted realities of womanhood. For Tsermou, deconstruction is an act of digestion—an approach to not only explore possibilities through the materials she is using but also a way of understanding the self and claiming a place in the world.

 

 

 

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Zeta Tsermou (b. Athens, 1972) is a visual artist based in Brussels, working across painting, sculpture, and video. She holds an Integrated Master in Fine Arts, specialising in Sculpture, from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2021), as well as a Master’s in Architectural Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) in London (1999) and a Diploma in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens (1998). Tsermou has participated in numerous group exhibitions across Greece, Europe, and internationally, including shows at Art Athina, the Museum of Hydra, and at the Centrale in Brussels while her work can be found in private collections.  In addition to her exhibitions, she has contributed to the field by teaching workshops on sculptural techniques and fine arts.