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


Monuments of Transmutation
Cambridge, MA
Damage & Repair
 The collection is the result of a semester-long exploration into both the material & narrative qualities of concrete, reflecting an interpretation of the building material as a medium capable of simultaneously embodying both creation & decay, straddling a territory that spans from ruin to aspiration. It resists an aesthetic that adheres strictly to notions of beginning or end, life or afterlife, & instead embraces an agnostic stance toward these concepts.

Rather than interpreting the breakdown of concrete as a flaw, these sculptures attempt to demonstrate how breaking can be re-imagined as an integral part of the material’s life cycle, & how failure can be harnessed constructively.