Constantinos Gallis
Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR

Hello, my name is Constantinos, & I am a Greek-Swiss artist, musician & student based in Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR. I am currently a dual degree student at MIT, pursuing a Master in City Planning & a Master of Architecture, & I hold a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University, where I graduated with departmental honors & distinction. I am curious about the effects of urban change on the natural environment & society, I have explored my interests through academic research, teaching, large scale installations, performances, audio-visual investigations, & practical work experience at firms in Athens. GR, New York, NY & London, GB.

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I am one half of Oo-PS, a collaborative research & design practice working across scales to produce narrative-driven artwork, writing, music & objects as ways of anticipating sets of future socio-environmental challenges & designing theoretical methods to meet them.

Oo-PS

I write, record, produce & occasionally perform music under the alias Shrinking Violet, a project that modulates between ambient, dreampop & indie rock in an effort to create music about memory, distance & uncertainty.

Shrinking Violet


Memory Pavilion
Stanford, CA
Architectural Installation
[w/ E. Petersen, K. Han]
 The Memory Pavilion was selected from a pool of nearly 100 projects to be featured in the 2023 Frost Arts & Music Festival, where the theme of the year was Sacred Spaces. When considering this exhibition’s theme, Ethan, Katie & I quickly realized that themes of ritual & memory resonated between our shared notions of sanctity.

As a place where rhythms of everyday life are performed, the home became the primary stage for us to operate in. For us, home is a place that is at once sacred & profane, a tension we wished to explore through the vague framing of space as a way to evoke interiority, while also allowing visitors to read meaning into moments created in the space. The Memory Pavilion is a collection of built form constructed from semi-translucent fabric panels & simple domestic artifacts, arranged to create an implied space. The panels capture shadows of trees & people, & move with wind & touch.

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