Dark MIRROR
ith her wide doe eyes and porcelain skin, Ariana Papademetropoulos—who seems something between an ingenuous Renaissance figure and a Robert Rodriguez heroine—is almost as visually intriguing as her paintings; both are tinged with nostalgia and the occult. In her work, the 29-year-old dissects the obsessions of the human being. “I am a collector,” Papademetropoulos says. “Before I start painting I spend days collecting random objects that people have thrown
