Artist Statement:

I am, what you're not.

What starts out as contemplation soon becomes debased into a hegemony of lust, leaving only a sense of chaos and the prospect of a new synthesis. As wavering phenomena become frozen through studious and critical practice, the viewer is left with a hymn to the darkness of our future.

Michael Andresakis (°1984, Wrocław) is an artist who uses various means of expression.

He grew up in a family of artists, graduates of the PWSSP in Wrocław, now the Academy of Fine Arts E. Geppert. Józef Chierowski, his grandfather, was the creator of the famous cult chair 366. His grandmother, Czesława Chierowska worked as a fashion designer at BoBo in Piława.

First lessons of drawing, painting, and analog photography he attended, were in Athens at his mother’s studio, Katarzyna Chierowska (also a graduate of the PWSSP in Wrocław). He also studied graphic design at AKTO Art & Design (Middlesex University of London).

He actively works in music as well as the international publishing scene, implementing all types of digital graphics and video. In his free time, he creates works that embrace time and space - it is a fictional and empirical journey that reveals itself step by step.

Under the influence of such masters as Zdzisław Beksiński, David Lynch, Jackson Pollock, Stan Brakhage, William Blake and Albrecht Dürer, he tries to combine several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, increasing the dynamics between the audience and the author, objectivating emotions and investigating duality that develops through different interpretations.

M. Andresakis (also known as feeleash) lives in Athens, Greece. His time is shared between providing technical support to Phoenix Athens gallery and designing logos, covers, patches, layouts, posters, as well as website material for record companies like: Cursed Tongue Records, Fuzzdoom Recs and Ripple Music.