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Markela Panegyres: The Performance Prism

or each artwork, she constructs fictitious personas, notable for their uncanny artifice. It’s by means of these ambiguous characters and their uneasy actions, that Panegyres works through themes of personal trauma, memory, and social commentary. Her art consequently moves between the darkly comedic and disturbing, cultivating an unnerving mix of tension and pathos. In discussing her creative approach, Panegyres underscores that she

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