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'Playing with images and words allows me to provoke thought and encourage reflection'

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I create from the pulse of the urban universe — from its noise, its silence, its consumption, its politics, its rebellion, its memory. I collect fragments of the visible world — icons, slogans, objects, confessions — and I refuse to leave them as I found them. Art must not sleep. Art must not repeat. Art must not obey. It must provoke, disturb, awaken. To be a fine artist is not to imitate a language, but to invent one. A true style is not decoration — it is a signature carved into existence. I take the familiar and I shift it. I take what is globally recognized and I make it personally unavoidable. Because the greatest confrontation is not between nations, systems, or ideologies — it is between the human being and the self.  My icons do not remain icons. My words do not remain words. They dislocate, regenerate, contradict themselves. They break their assigned meanings and rebuild new ones. A symbol in my work may whisper and scream at the same time. A phrase may appear direct, yet...
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Participation at the exhibition 'Artificial Lines of Flight' on the 'The Wrong Biennale o7'

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Works and video from my installation ‘Arteryficial Intelligence’  presented from 'The Wrong Biennale o7', entitled 'Artificial Lines of Flight', on a  large screens at ‘Art ‘Otel London Hoxton Gallery, between 23 February - 12 March, 2026  (London, UK). Thank you  @capitartx  and  @isilezgicelik ! Below the video and sample photos from the content of my presentation.
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Interviews and presentation of my work at Flow' and 'Lucid' art magazines

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  In December, my work was featured through interviews and curated presentations in  Flow  and  Lucid  art magazines, published on December 29. The features explored my artistic practice, creative process, and conceptual approach, while presenting selected artworks within an editorial context that highlighted their thematic and visual language.  You can find also buy the magazines at the links below https://www.scribd.com/document/973144528/Flow https://www.peecho.com/print/en/2129565 https://www.scribd.com/upload-document https://www.peecho.com/print/en/2129541 On my next post at my blog I will share some content from my interviews
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'Presentation & Interview on More Carnage by Asycd'

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  Hello everyone, At the link  https://www.asycd.online/blog/more-car nage-mike-petrakis-arteryficial-intelligence   you can read the wonderful interaction wit Asycd's team, regarding my project 'Arteryficial Intelligence', via their their website 'More Carnage' he works pulse. They look engineered but wounded, as if someone tried to build a perfect machine and ended up revealing their own bloodstream instead. Petrakis refuses the clean futurism that tech culture worships. He gives us circuitry that sweats. He gives us intelligence that bleeds. He reminds us that the digital world, for all its disembodied ambition, is still shaped by human hands—trembling, terrified, addicted to progress, desperate for control....
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'Participation at The Wrong Biennale o7'

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  Announce my y participation at the 'Wrong Biennale o7'  entitled 'Artificial Lines of Flight' by 'capitArtX' (London, UK), my artworks 'Arteryficial Intelligence', lEGG' & 'DemocrAIcy'. The exhibition starts ton November 1st 2025 and will be on display until March 2026.  Through my new project, I am attempting to map the anatomy of artificial intelligence (Art – Artery – Arteryficial & TEXNH – TEXNology), as a living being that expands, in all aspects of modern life. All the means of applied digital knowledge as a study of neuroscience and cognitive behavior... #capitart_x You can view the exhibition at the link below https://www.capitartx.com/artificial-lines-of-flight/ Artificial Lines of Flight   takes inspiration from Gilles Deleuze’s concept of   ligne de fuite   — a line of escape, of transformation, of rupture from systems of power, structure, and sense. In this context, the exhibition considers how AI and algorithmic creativ...
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'Presentations of my work on September'

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  I'm proud to announce the new presentations of my work on 'Artist Spotlight'& at the virtual group show entitled 'Harmony of Tension' with five works. 'Artist Spotlight' ‘Every Image Creates a Story, Every Word Narrates the Story’ — Mike Petrakis   This guiding philosophy shapes the pieces Petrakis creates. For him, art is a process of discovery, where the dialogue between artist, canvas, and audience unfolds naturally. Words play a vital role in that dialogue, not as static symbols, but as dynamic visual elements.   More at the link https://medium.com/@dominique.sahms/the-language-of-creation-when-words-become-art-89e3b500596d 'Harmony of Tension' Exhibition's statement Harmony of Tension invites reflection on the spaces where friction creates beauty and equilibrium is hard-won. More at the link https://visit.virtualartgallery.com/harmonyoftension?utm_source=chatgpt.com 'Nuance' group exhibition with my artwork 'FORESTrus',...
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'Participation at the Second International Biennial of Miniature Art'

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  Announce my participation at the 'Biennial of miniature Art-Bitola 2025' with my drawings 'GUN(M) & ARTery'. The physical group exhibition started on August 12 and will be presented at Serbia, Greece & Romania. Also on June my work  ‘D(ME)MOCRACY'exhibited at the virtual group show entitled 'Wellspring''' You can view the exhibition at the link https://visit.virtualartgallery.com/wellspring
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