
Liti
Biography
Aphrodite Liti was born in Athens in 1953. She studied sculpture, mosaic, and fresco painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Yannis Pappas, Kostas Kolefas, and Konstantinos Xynopoulos. She also studied at the Università degli Studi in Milan (1978) on a scholarship from the Italian government and then pursued postgraduate studies at the University of London (1983-1986) on a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation.
From the beginning of her career, the natural environment has been her main source of inspiration. Tree branches, leaves and fruits, animals, birds, and insects are transformed into dreamlike representations that create a poetic atmosphere, sometimes with symbolic references, others with a mood of commentary on reality. She uses a variety of materials, such as metals, mirrors, stone, clay, mortar, mosaic, and plexiglass, and later introduced technological elements, mainly neon lamps, into her work. She has presented her work in many solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
In 1985, she was honored for her work with an award from the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece. From 1978 to 2000, she worked as a museum sculptor at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, and from 2000 to 2021, she taught in the Sculpture Department at the ASFA, at the rank of professor.
Her works can be found in the collection of the National Gallery – Alexander Soutzos Museum, the Museums of Contemporary Art in Rethymno and Florina, the Kalamata Municipal Gallery, many public spaces, and other private and public collections, both in Greece and abroad.
Exhibitions
The Dreamlike and the Dream: the Pollinators of Life
Artworks
Owls
May 19, 2017 – October 31, 2017
Inner Paradise
May 26, 2012 – June 27, 2012
