Armory Shield - Placebo Series, 2016
Peggy Kliafa studied at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and then at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2005 – 2012). She has held many solo exhibitions in Greece and participated in group exhibitions and art fairs in Greece and other countries. Her works have been acquired by public collections/museums in Greece as well as foundations and private collections in Greece and abroad.
Τhe uniqueness of Kliafa art lies in that she chooses as a key component of her work the pill or the blister - pharmaceutical packing.
With blister she composed this work Armory Shield - Placebo Series, an image of a metal wall. For Kliafa, this novel medium takes the place of the brush stroke, paint, pencil, metal, glass, tessarae, yarn. The structured of this work, the total symmetry and the perfect finish contribute to creating a hallucinatory image, with a proliferation of connotations and associations. The pill and the medicine certainly hark back to Damien Hirst, but Kliafa's works are unmistakably personal and manage to elicit a pleasant and poetic surprise.
