Angelos Angelidis is a Greek artist based in Athens. Following a six-year career as a flying trapeze artist in circuses around the world and 15 years as a professional film and documentary editor based in Paris, he decided to return to Athens to focus on sculpture and jewellery. His jewellery work consists of geometric structures crafted from various metal plates and wires, and it is showcased in museum and gallery shops in Greece and internationally.

The cube is a shape that has resonated with me since childhood.
In my perception, the cube is a form so complete that it has lost its capacity to evolve, resulting in an eternal stillness. Through my constructions, I seek to breathe life back into the cube, allowing it to regain movement, lightness, and expression.

The cube also represents, for me, the three-dimensional form of a pixel—a reference to the intersection of the digital world with our physical reality. When worn, my jewellery creates the impression of the human body being encircled and penetrated by waves of three-dimensional pixels.

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Through these structures, I aim to explore the question of whether humanity truly controls the digital world, or whether it is, in fact, the digital world that controls us—to our detriment.

A direct reference emerging from this exploration is that of the half-human, half-machine entity. The jewellery pieces act as extensions of the body’s extremities, projecting outward to create the initial contact with the external world and mediating our interaction with it.

This project began in the aftermath of the lockdown era during the coronavirus pandemic and, I believe, reflects the struggle for liberation from today's society—a society characterised by limitation, conformity, and, ultimately, petrification.

My creations are cubical structures crafted from a variety of metal plates and wires. I also use light and shadow to explore the objects and the spaces they inhabit.