Eleni Mylonas \u2014 Best Video Art & Experimental<\/title>\n\n \n <link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\" crossorigin>\n <link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Montserrat:wght@300;400;500;600&display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n\n <style>\n :root{\n --bg: #ffffff;\n --fg: #0b0b0c;\n --muted: #6b6f76;\n --card: #f7f7f8;\n --maxw: 980px;\n }\n @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark){\n :root{\n --bg: #0b0b0c;\n --fg: #f2f3f5;\n --muted: #a6aab2;\n --card: #141417;\n }\n }\n\n html, body { height: 100%; }\n body{\n margin:0;\n background: var(--bg);\n color: var(--fg);\n font-family: \"Montserrat\", system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, \"Helvetica Neue\", Arial, sans-serif;\n line-height: 1.65;\n -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\n -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;\n }\n\n .wrap{\n max-width: var(--maxw);\n margin: 40px auto 72px;\n padding: 0 20px;\n }\n\n \/* HERO image first *\/\n .hero{\n margin: 0 0 34px;\n border-radius: 18px;\n overflow: hidden;\n box-shadow: 0 10px 28px rgba(0,0,0,.08);\n background: var(--card);\n }\n .hero img{\n display:block;\n width:100%;\n height:auto;\n object-fit: cover;\n }\n\n article{\n font-size: clamp(16px, 1.5vw, 18px);\n }\n article p{ margin: 0 0 16px; }\n article em{ font-style: italic; }\n\n .lede{\n font-size: clamp(17px, 1.7vw, 19px);\n font-weight: 400;\n }\n\n .divider{\n height:1px;\n background: linear-gradient(90deg, transparent, rgba(127,127,127,.25), transparent);\n margin: 28px 0;\n }\n\n .poster{\n margin: 32px 0 8px;\n background: var(--card);\n border-radius: 16px;\n overflow: hidden;\n box-shadow: 0 8px 22px rgba(0,0,0,.06);\n }\n .poster img{\n display:block;\n width:100%;\n height:auto;\n }\n figcaption{\n font-size: 12px;\n color: var(--muted);\n padding: 10px 2px 0;\n text-align: left;\n }\n\n \/* Full-bleed video section (breaks out of the max-width container) *\/\n .video-section{\n margin-top: 44px;\n }\n .video-title{\n font-size: 12px;\n letter-spacing: .14em;\n text-transform: uppercase;\n color: var(--muted);\n margin-bottom: 10px;\n padding: 0 20px;\n }\n .fullbleed{\n width: 100vw;\n margin-left: calc(50% - 50vw);\n margin-right: calc(50% - 50vw);\n background: #000; \/* better look while loading *\/\n }\n .video-embed{\n position: relative;\n width: 100vw;\n aspect-ratio: 16 \/ 9; \/* keeps correct proportions *\/\n overflow: hidden;\n }\n .video-embed iframe{\n position: absolute;\n inset: 0;\n width: 100%;\n height: 100%;\n border: 0;\n display: block;\n }\n @media (max-aspect-ratio: 16\/9){\n \/* On very tall\/narrow screens, limit height a bit for usability *\/\n .video-embed{ max-height: 90vh; }\n }\n\n @media print{\n .wrap{ margin: 12px auto; }\n .hero, .poster{ box-shadow: none; }\n .fullbleed{ width: 100%; margin: 0; }\n .video-embed{ width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 16\/9; }\n a[href]::after{ content: \"\"; }\n }\n <\/style>\n<\/head>\n<body>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n\n \n <figure class=\"hero\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"\n src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eleni-mylonas-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"Portrait of Eleni Mylonas, Winner: Best Video Art & Experimental\" \/>\n <\/figure>\n\n <article>\n <p class=\"lede\">\n Eleni Mylonas, a multidisciplinary artist based between New York and Athens, has long been a vital figure in the international art scene. A Fulbright scholar, she holds a Master\u2019s degree from Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism and a degree in photography from the University of London. Over the decades, she has exhibited at prestigious institutions including MoMA PS1 in New York, the Benaki Museum in Athens, and the Francoise Heitsch Gallery in Munich, among many others. Her practice has consistently moved across media\u2014painting, photography, performance, and video\u2014always with a sharp sensitivity to the urgencies of the present.\n <\/p>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n <p>\n Her awarded work, <em>SeaMonster II<\/em>, expands on her ongoing <em>SeaMonster<\/em> series, begun with <em>SeaMonster Monk<\/em> (Athens Art Fair 2019; WhiteBox NYC 2023). This body of work is deeply rooted in the landscape of Aegina, the Greek island where Mylonas maintains her studio. Objects collected along the shoreline\u2014discarded nets, fragments of plastic, remnants of human consumption\u2014are reimagined as ritualistic elements in her performance. What others might dismiss as waste, Mylonas transforms into both testimony and metaphor: a meditation on environmental destruction and an invocation of resilience.\n <\/p>\n <p>\n In <em>SeaMonster II<\/em>, performance, installation, and ecological consciousness merge. The artist stages a confrontation between the beauty and violence of the sea, presenting debris as relics of our collective indifference but also as tools of rebirth. Through this transformation, Mylonas constructs a work that is both intimate and universal, speaking to urgent global concerns while grounded in the physical reality of her own environment.\n <\/p>\n <p>\n Her recognition with the award for <strong>Best Video Art & Experimental<\/strong> underscores the power of experimental practice to capture the contradictions of our age: fragility and resilience, destruction and renewal, despair and ritual.\n <\/p>\n\n \n <figure class=\"poster\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"\n src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eleni-mylonas-prize-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"Poster for SeaMonster II by Eleni Mylonas \u2014 Winner: Best Video Art & Experimental\" \/>\n <\/figure>\n <figcaption>Poster \u2014 <em>SeaMonster II<\/em> by Eleni Mylonas (Winner: Best Video Art & Experimental)<\/figcaption>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <section class=\"video-section\">\n <div class=\"video-title\">WATCH THE WINNING FILM HERE<\/div>\n <div class=\"fullbleed\">\n <div class=\"video-embed\">\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\"\n src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/788706815?h=7695e6fef5\"\n width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"\n referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"\n allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\"\n allowfullscreen>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleni Mylonas \u2014 Best Video Art & Experimental Eleni Mylonas, a multidisciplinary artist based between New York and Athens, has long been a vital figure in the international art scene. A Fulbright scholar, she holds a Master\u2019s degree from Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism and a degree in photography from the University of London.…<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/mylonos\/\" class=\"themebutton3\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13241,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13234\/revisions\/13241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":13234,"date":"2025-09-29T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/?page_id=13234"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:37:11","slug":"mylonos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/mylonos\/","title":{"rendered":"ELENI MYLONAS \u2014 WINNER: BEST VIDEO ART & EXPERIMENTAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n Eleni Mylonas \u2014 Best Video Art & Experimental<\/title>\n\n \n <link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\" crossorigin>\n <link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Montserrat:wght@300;400;500;600&display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n\n <style>\n :root{\n --bg: #ffffff;\n --fg: #0b0b0c;\n --muted: #6b6f76;\n --card: #f7f7f8;\n --maxw: 980px;\n }\n @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark){\n :root{\n --bg: #0b0b0c;\n --fg: #f2f3f5;\n --muted: #a6aab2;\n --card: #141417;\n }\n }\n\n html, body { height: 100%; }\n body{\n margin:0;\n background: var(--bg);\n color: var(--fg);\n font-family: \"Montserrat\", system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, \"Helvetica Neue\", Arial, sans-serif;\n line-height: 1.65;\n -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\n -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;\n }\n\n .wrap{\n max-width: var(--maxw);\n margin: 40px auto 72px;\n padding: 0 20px;\n }\n\n \/* HERO image first *\/\n .hero{\n margin: 0 0 34px;\n border-radius: 18px;\n overflow: hidden;\n box-shadow: 0 10px 28px rgba(0,0,0,.08);\n background: var(--card);\n }\n .hero img{\n display:block;\n width:100%;\n height:auto;\n object-fit: cover;\n }\n\n article{\n font-size: clamp(16px, 1.5vw, 18px);\n }\n article p{ margin: 0 0 16px; }\n article em{ font-style: italic; }\n\n .lede{\n font-size: clamp(17px, 1.7vw, 19px);\n font-weight: 400;\n }\n\n .divider{\n height:1px;\n background: linear-gradient(90deg, transparent, rgba(127,127,127,.25), transparent);\n margin: 28px 0;\n }\n\n .poster{\n margin: 32px 0 8px;\n background: var(--card);\n border-radius: 16px;\n overflow: hidden;\n box-shadow: 0 8px 22px rgba(0,0,0,.06);\n }\n .poster img{\n display:block;\n width:100%;\n height:auto;\n }\n figcaption{\n font-size: 12px;\n color: var(--muted);\n padding: 10px 2px 0;\n text-align: left;\n }\n\n \/* Full-bleed video section (breaks out of the max-width container) *\/\n .video-section{\n margin-top: 44px;\n }\n .video-title{\n font-size: 12px;\n letter-spacing: .14em;\n text-transform: uppercase;\n color: var(--muted);\n margin-bottom: 10px;\n padding: 0 20px;\n }\n .fullbleed{\n width: 100vw;\n margin-left: calc(50% - 50vw);\n margin-right: calc(50% - 50vw);\n background: #000; \/* better look while loading *\/\n }\n .video-embed{\n position: relative;\n width: 100vw;\n aspect-ratio: 16 \/ 9; \/* keeps correct proportions *\/\n overflow: hidden;\n }\n .video-embed iframe{\n position: absolute;\n inset: 0;\n width: 100%;\n height: 100%;\n border: 0;\n display: block;\n }\n @media (max-aspect-ratio: 16\/9){\n \/* On very tall\/narrow screens, limit height a bit for usability *\/\n .video-embed{ max-height: 90vh; }\n }\n\n @media print{\n .wrap{ margin: 12px auto; }\n .hero, .poster{ box-shadow: none; }\n .fullbleed{ width: 100%; margin: 0; }\n .video-embed{ width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 16\/9; }\n a[href]::after{ content: \"\"; }\n }\n <\/style>\n<\/head>\n<body>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n\n \n <figure class=\"hero\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"\n src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eleni-mylonas-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"Portrait of Eleni Mylonas, Winner: Best Video Art & Experimental\" \/>\n <\/figure>\n\n <article>\n <p class=\"lede\">\n Eleni Mylonas, a multidisciplinary artist based between New York and Athens, has long been a vital figure in the international art scene. A Fulbright scholar, she holds a Master\u2019s degree from Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism and a degree in photography from the University of London. Over the decades, she has exhibited at prestigious institutions including MoMA PS1 in New York, the Benaki Museum in Athens, and the Francoise Heitsch Gallery in Munich, among many others. Her practice has consistently moved across media\u2014painting, photography, performance, and video\u2014always with a sharp sensitivity to the urgencies of the present.\n <\/p>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n <p>\n Her awarded work, <em>SeaMonster II<\/em>, expands on her ongoing <em>SeaMonster<\/em> series, begun with <em>SeaMonster Monk<\/em> (Athens Art Fair 2019; WhiteBox NYC 2023). This body of work is deeply rooted in the landscape of Aegina, the Greek island where Mylonas maintains her studio. Objects collected along the shoreline\u2014discarded nets, fragments of plastic, remnants of human consumption\u2014are reimagined as ritualistic elements in her performance. What others might dismiss as waste, Mylonas transforms into both testimony and metaphor: a meditation on environmental destruction and an invocation of resilience.\n <\/p>\n <p>\n In <em>SeaMonster II<\/em>, performance, installation, and ecological consciousness merge. The artist stages a confrontation between the beauty and violence of the sea, presenting debris as relics of our collective indifference but also as tools of rebirth. Through this transformation, Mylonas constructs a work that is both intimate and universal, speaking to urgent global concerns while grounded in the physical reality of her own environment.\n <\/p>\n <p>\n Her recognition with the award for <strong>Best Video Art & Experimental<\/strong> underscores the power of experimental practice to capture the contradictions of our age: fragility and resilience, destruction and renewal, despair and ritual.\n <\/p>\n\n \n <figure class=\"poster\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"\n src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eleni-mylonas-prize-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"Poster for SeaMonster II by Eleni Mylonas \u2014 Winner: Best Video Art & Experimental\" \/>\n <\/figure>\n <figcaption>Poster \u2014 <em>SeaMonster II<\/em> by Eleni Mylonas (Winner: Best Video Art & Experimental)<\/figcaption>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <section class=\"video-section\">\n <div class=\"video-title\">WATCH THE WINNING FILM HERE<\/div>\n <div class=\"fullbleed\">\n <div class=\"video-embed\">\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\"\n src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/788706815?h=7695e6fef5\"\n width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"\n referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"\n allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\"\n allowfullscreen>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleni Mylonas \u2014 Best Video Art & Experimental Eleni Mylonas, a multidisciplinary artist based between New York and Athens, has long been a vital figure in the international art scene. A Fulbright scholar, she holds a Master\u2019s degree from Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism and a degree in photography from the University of London.…<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/mylonos\/\" class=\"themebutton3\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13241,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13234\/revisions\/13241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}