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According to artist and RCA tutor Despina Zacharopoulou: "Claudia's transdisciplinary practice spans the fields of new media, performance, sculpture, and painting. Influenced by her background in architecture, her work explores the poetics of space through rituals she performs with her own postcolonial female body, as well as through the material remnants left behind from these performative actions."
 

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In God We Trust (2024)


Is a reflection on the complex relationship between women and money, labor, and value. In this piece, I stitch $100 bills into the fabric of the first dress my godmother ever made for me, intertwining threads of memory and currency. On the bills, I write phrases like “God will provide,” echoing the societal expectations placed on faith and divine provision, often used to justify economic inequalities. Through this act, I meditate on the materiality of money, the invisible labor of women, and the contradictions between financial dependence and spiritual trust.

[Old child’s dress, plastic hanger, red ink, thread, cotton fabric, and counterfeit $100 bills, used in money ritual].
20” x 25” x 16
Limited edition
San Diego, USA