Born in Athens, Aliki Krikidi studied at the Athens School of Fine Art before completing an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Aliki currently lives and works between Oxford and Berlin.

Her practice is mainly painting-based and orbits around various phenomenological and existential themes including, amongst others, the nature of time and being, affect, speed and physicality as they are experienced in the artistic process itself.

Aliki's work inhabits a three-dimensional struggle of figurations and forms, stretched with anxiety, in fight with what is signified by the complex systems of narrations, conflicts of real and imaginary, symbolic escape conduits. Working with fragments of images, narratives appear, revealed and reshuffled. Aliki attempts to reconstruct the deficient narration of the real using paradoxical dense sequences of forms; following trails you cannot go back to, within time enclosures, small time trips where the focus shifts between painting flows and visual interpretations of fragments, creating time experienced as space and vice versa. The elements of the process are brushed into a vortex where paint fights pictorial collapse and fragments of narration fail to regain coherence in this ever-transforming reality.

- Eugenia Lapteva
In his Eye and Mind (1961) the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty put forward the following statement: 'Science manipulates things and gives up living in them.' He argued that scientific thinking, 'a thinking which looks on from above', and thinks of the world as existing entirely independent of ourselves, has become the dominant rationale of Western thought. More

- Tim Adams
Newspaper photographs give us discrete glimpses of extreme emotion. They are bits of throwaway voyeurism into other people's lives. Sometimes these everyday faces and figures - of sportsmen and politicians - are so familiar that we forget how strange they are to us, what other worlds they inhabit. Aliki Krikidi's compelling paintings do not forget that strangeness for one moment, they dwell in it, wonder about it More

- Andrew Lambirth
At first glance, Aliki Krikidi seems to have chosen to paint pictures of today’s worst publicity junkies: politicians and sportsmen, whose names may get into history books or catalogues of useless facts, but whose real contribution to human civilization is negligible. More