Bio

Stathis Yapoutzidis-Karras (b.1993) was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. His Pontic-Greek refugee roots and childhood play a vital role in his work, growing up among noisy, brutal construction workers and love. His practice delves into themes as identity, change, and the human behavior with the entanglement of socio-historical implications. He confronts values and concepts of life that have been distorted in memory to impregnate them with new meanings and modern mythologies while focusing on how the pragmatic could be unreal and how the politic could be theatrical. He emphasizes on the lo-fi recording of stillness or loudness. Material becomes a significant medium to express his messages as voices to create sonority through distortion.
Alongside his artistic practice, he experiments with sound forms and music. Stathis also ran a garage-hardcore punk band under the name PISSTONS from 2011 to 2018.
He lives and works between Greece and Belgium and his work has been presented in Greece, Italy and The Netherlands.

“I’m searching about the ‘decadence’ in reality and the ‘political’ in absurdity. I make things to echo my anger. I’m concerned with noise and catharsis. I like to perform and shout my thoughts. The emotion of injustice inside my memories became anger that transformed into allegories and dramatic interpretations in my practice. I was always looking at what is missing from perfection. I’m very interested to find the deep memory in things and carry it till I have to create a myth, to get over the trauma, to finish history.”