She explores in depth the paths of chance and takes delight in the surprise that springs from recording and observing randomness. A similar kind of surprise is experienced by anyone who watches the videos of the audiovisual artist Martha Gogakou, where colors randomly shape magical worlds endowed with perpetual movement.

In her live performances she paints before the audience, creating abstract landscapes that come to life through their constant movement. “It is highly demanding to perform before a live audience and music – more abstract as a medium that its nature suggests – is a perfect fit to my work, which I like to refer to as visual meditation,” she points out. Her love for the microcosmos, and anything that takes place within such a small scale, led her to create a 7×7 structure and use her watercolors to record the movements of the colors that flow on the painting surface. This original technique serves as the bedrock for her experimental videos. Everything that unfolds in her works is placed within this small scale. Yet, even on such a small canvas, we can detect rivers,
mountains, planets, geographical maps, an entire universe in correspondence and resemblance with reality.

“To quote Hermes Trismegistus: ‘as above, so below’. The main condition is the same, the patterns repeat themselves both in the macrocosmos and the microcosmos. I had always been impressed by this concept and my works tend to confirm this general law in a way.” She is currently working on a live visual performance teaming up with her friend and musician Matthijs Vos, scheduled to be hosted in September 2023 abroad, possibly in London or in Amsterdam. She recently worked as a set designer in the theater play Ataktos Kosmos (Irregular World), directed by Elena Moudiri Chasiotou and staged in May 2023, in Thessaloniki, while her latest work from the trilogy Kosmogonia (Cosmogony), including works inspired from the early days of our universe, is available on her YouTube channel (Martha Gogakou).

She is fascinated by everyday people and random conversations. “People that you cross paths with and the conversations with total strangers have a great impact on me. The moments you feel compelled to talk to a stranger and you go ahead and do it, and almost every time you discover a good reason behind your impulse.” The way she sees things, all people that passed through her life played a part in the development of a different and more completed version of herself. “Each and everyone has contributed in some way. But the greatest help comes from within. When you
listen to your true voice and you are not afraid of going down the path dictated by your heart.”

She firmly believes that an artist should try to become a channel leading to the very core of expression and communication, rather than make it a purpose to follow the latest trends of contemporary art. “No person can teach us how to do that, but if we look deep inside, we may discover that precious core that is no different than the core of the universe itself.’ This inner quest demands hard work, or in her own words: “It demands that you keep trying and trying over and over again. To fall down and stand up on your feet again. How else could you declare your intentions to the universe? And how else would you prove to yourself how much you want it to happen?”.