Erifyli Doukeli, known as eridart, is a contemporary visual artist working across painting, digital media, and interactive audiovisual practices. Starting from painting at a young age, her practice gradually evolved through her studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts and her engagement with 3D, animation, and projection mapping.
Her work develops within a space where image, sound, and rhythm coexist, creating experiences that move between the narrative and the emotional. At the core of her practice lies the need to explore fluidity, the relationship between humans and technology, and the ways in which the image can function as an experience.
Creation as a Process of Understanding
For eridart, creation does not begin from a fixed stimulus. Each work has a different starting point, often emerging from observations of everyday life, human behavior, or internal emotional states. What remains constant is her approach: art functions as a process of exploration. Form, rhythm, and medium are not merely tools of representation, but ways of understanding experiences that cannot easily be expressed through words.
The Environment as Sensation and Structure
The environment does not appear in her work as a direct subject, but rather as a background that shapes the way she perceives time, movement, and intensity. The city, the rhythms of everyday life, and the spaces she inhabits are translated into elements such as repetition, noise, or pause. Not as realistic depiction, but as sensation and structure. She is interested in how an environment is inscribed in the body and memory — and how this experience is transformed into image or rhythm.
Color as Atmosphere
In her work, color does not function decoratively, but as a carrier of atmosphere. It conveys the character of each composition. Her choices either enhance the sculptural quality of 3D forms or amplify emotional intensity, highlighting the relationship between form, light, and rhythm. Color is not merely surface — it is experience.
When Connection Fades
A “bad” creative day is not about a lack of ideas, but a lack of connection. There are moments when the process becomes mechanical: everything works technically, yet nothing carries weight. In these cases, eridart does not force the outcome. Instead, she steps back, observes, or shifts her pace. These moments function more as a pause or recalibration rather than as failure.
Influences Beyond the Image
Cinema is a key source of inspiration — not only narratively, but as a way of thinking about time, framing, and rhythm. Literature, particularly science fiction and existential texts, influences the way she constructs worlds and internal states. At the same time, performance and dance interest her for their physicality and immediacy — elements she seeks to translate into digital environments. All these forms work complementarily, shaping the way she approaches image and experience.
The Need for Slow Reception
In a world where images are consumed rapidly, eridart seeks space for slower experience. For her, art does not need to be immediately explained. She is interested in experiences that do not reveal themselves at once — that allow the viewer to pause, feel slightly disoriented, and engage. Less emphasis on “what it means” and more on “how it makes you feel.”
The Viewer’s Experience
What she hopes for is simple: that the viewer can remain within the work without needing to fully understand it. If a sense of familiarity or a subtle internal shift arises, that is enough. The work functions as a meeting space, where each viewer brings their own experience and leaves with something new.
References and Sound
Among the creators who have influenced her are Iris van Herpen, for her experimentation with form and movement; MeatDept, for their approach to digital and hybrid spaces; Alejandro Jodorowsky, for his surreal intensity; James Dean, for the materiality of his painting; and Noah Hawley, for his ability to create layered narrative worlds. Music accompanies her creative process in an atmospheric and rhythmic way. There is no specific track — she gravitates toward electronic and ambient sounds that function as a background for focus and flow.
Looking Ahead
For the future of Art & The City, she highlights two creators: Christos Antoniou (Noodles In The Trenches), who works in the field of mixed media and animated graphics, and Chara Spathi, focusing on 3D animation and VFX. In eridart’s universe, art is not simply an image. It is an experience in constant transformation — a field where form, sound, and memory converge.
You can follow her on Instagram to see more of her work, or visit her website directly.
