As part of his three-month residency at the MISK Art Institute in Riyadh, Thomas Egoumenides presents an open studio showcasing his ongoing research.

Egoumenides invites you into an experience that blurs temporal boundaries, creating a series of artifacts that challenge your understanding of reality, and where present and future converge, and the natural and the artificial blend without one negating the other. 

Using industrial remnants and petrochemical products, such as plastic bags, his work juxtaposes in a single real location multiple spaces, multiple settings that are themselves incompatible. Within these spaces, he urges you to question the permanence and adaptability of materials—and of contemporary society.

Egoumenides adopts an empirical, experiential approach; far from hiding the history of his materials, he engages in a dance with them, almost confrontational. The fascinating paradox is that the more he alters and combines these materials, the more the artifacts regain an organic, almost living appearance, as if, tested by these trials, they seek to reconnect with ancient, inherently organic forms.

This tension between transformation and origins turns ordinary objects into captivating, ambiguous compositions that interrogate the lines between the mundane and the remarkable.