Zafos
Xagoraris lives and works in Athens, Greece.
He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the National
Technical University of Athens and at the Center for Advanced
Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His Ph.D. is on the construction of miracles by Hero of Alexandria.
Currently he is a Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
His work is consisted mainly of installations, mechanisms
and drawings, directly related to the urban environment. After
1989, when he presented an installation next to Charles River
in Boston, he has created a series of public artworks. He
has also presented 6 solo and a series of group exhibitions
and since 1998 is a member of the Urban Void group, performing
everyday actions in the city.
During the last three years his work was related to the concept
of range, when isolated sources (a bow, a foghorn, a bell
etc.) and the limitation of their capacity, define a space.
In 2002, he presented two public installations at Metsovo,
Greece and Langenlois, Austria and in 2003; he started the
construction of a permanent public artwork at Kallithea station
in Athens. He also realized the first of a series of movable
sound installations in abandoned villages and neighbourhoods
at Cyprus (2003-5), and with the collaboration of the Museum
of Contemporary Art, he created a public art project at 3
different venues in Athens.
In 2004, he presented public artworks at the Art Lot in Brooklyn,
NY, at the European Patent Office in Munich and at Modena
during the Going Public 04. He also participated in the project
in progress L’Autre Ville, which will be realized at
Nicosia and Lyon. He was the co-curator of the collaborative
project in progress ‘Paradigmata’( Greek participation
at the 9th Biennale of architecture in Venice, Benaki Museum,
Athens). Recently he took part in the Sao Paulo Biennial 2007.






