Born in Greece and currently based in Singapore, Emi Avora is drawing subject matter from her life in Asia as well as her Greek ancestry with a focus on a combination of interior spaces, still life and landscape. By entering a dialog with earlier historical canons, her paintings ponder on how to reconcile our everyday existence with larger cosmic forces that govern our environment, our relationships, our past and our future. The search for her own rediscovered ‘place’ and ‘identity’ as well as curiosity for the shapes that surround her are elements that occupy her compositions. Dreamy, intense and with the use of light on the driving seat, her work employs a heightened palette to allow the viewer space for re-invention, creating a gap between the real and the imaginary. By the act of re-imagining, Avora enters into an escapist realm albeit parallel to the real.