About the Artist

Rea-Silvia Emmanouil is a Greek interdisciplinary artist currently based in Chicago.
She graduated with distinction from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was an honors student and merit scholarship recipient. Working primarily in sculpture, her practice explores how rigid materials can be manipulated into fluid, dynamic forms. Through this transformation, she creates large-scale works that carry both strength and movement, inviting viewers to experience materiality as something alive and shifting. Drawing on her background in painting and digital media, Rea Silvia infuses her sculptures with layered complexity and spatial sensitivity. Her recent work expands into public art and large-scale installations that interact with both architecture and the natural environment. Engaging the tension between the organic and the industrial, her practice pushes the boundaries of contemporary sculpture, redefining how matter can embody flow, rhythm, and transformation.​

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Artist Statement

Rea-Silvia explores the intricate relationship between nature and femininity,
creating sculptures that transform rigid steel into fluid, organic forms. At the core
of her practice is the tension between strength and softness, permanence and impermanence. Through force and manipulation, she bends solid materials into shapes that echo the rhythms of the natural world, embodying both movement
and stillness. Her work reflects on transformation, the coexistence of decay and regeneration, restriction and release, often mirroring the curves of the female form without direct representation. Deeply influenced by her Greek heritage and the serenity of its landscapes, she seeks to create spaces of pause within motion. Increasingly working on large-scale and public installations, Rea-Silvia aims to
craft sculptural experiences that move beyond form to evoke emotion, offering
a dialogue between material, body, and environment.​