In 2010 the greek sculpturer, Valli Nomidou, presented her work " Let it bleed " in Fizz Gallery.
The exhibition is a series of life-size sculptures, as well as, a series of individual body parts, such as heads or hands, all made of paper. The work depicts young women and young girls. The female figures impress with their naturalness, the perfection of modelling and the beauty of volume.
Paper, Nomidou's dominant materials, constitutes a key component in her creative process, linked to a painful and systematic research on the technical level, as well as on that of aesthetic intergration. The artist respects her material and althought it is cheap and vulnerable, she does not "adulterate" it by using other materials
Nomidou builds and shapes her works from the inside out solely using papaer and paperboard. The internal cardboard frame is built with vertical and horizontal grid in order to be able to suppport and render stillness in her sculptures, while also ensuring balance in contraction and expansion.
Nomidou's figures coexist in space, with the similarities and shared features which characterise them with respect to technical, aesthetic and conceptual development. The figures, quite, silent, their eyes closed, stand detached, their introversion prevailing. Solitary creatures, with an inclination towards the inner, the intimate, the hermetic, where the pain, although intense, remains silent and internalised.
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