Evripidis sculpture 5

About the Artist

Evripidis and His Tragedies is the alter ego of Evripidis Sabatis, a Greek artist based in Barcelona since 2004. The “Tragedies” are pop songs, drawings, and sculptures—playful, devastating, confessional, and often tinged with dark humor. Evripidis’s creations take us on a bumpy, dancey journey along the fine line between tragedy and the joy of living.

Over the past 20 years, Evripidis has released six albums, composed music for audiovisual works, performed in various cities across Europe and the Americas, and exhibited drawings and ceramics in Athens, Madrid, Barcelona, and New York. He has published an illustrated book and contributed to several art publications and fanzines.

Evripidis’s ceramic pieces are depictions of beings that can be interpreted as monsters, omens of a strange future, and wonders of a world that feels both familiar and extraordinary. From this tangle of tentacles, marine forms, scaly textures, outstretched hands (that leave you wondering whether they’re pleading for help or yearning for touch), mutated cell phones, and orifices that sometimes seem sensual and sometimes terrifying, one can sense transformation but also body horror.

Mutilated parts and unhealed cracks alternate with beautifully glazed surfaces rich in color and texture. Evripidis’s works reflect on a post-pandemic but still wondrous world, with climate collapse looming, fragile mental health, a possible conquest of the earth by fungi, and the threat of armed conflict. They also raise questions about the commodification of terror, the banality of atrocity, and the pornography of the apocalypse, where the grotesque and the horrifying merge with the beautiful to create decorative objects for a turbo-capitalist world.

Evripidis transforms his dysmorphic yet strangely charming drawings, which we first encountered almost 15 years ago in his illustrated book El Calamor y otros mitos de la intimidad (published by Morsa), into sculptures to occupy the intimate spaces of each of us.