Vassilis Perros was born in Athens in 1981. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Athens. He presented his work in three solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
His works are sourced initially from an impenetrable well of familial narratives of displacement and migration; change and loss; they equate their existence with dramatic events in the latter-day history of Greece.
As curator Iris Kritikou mentions, Perros courageously digs deep into his private memory and into our collective memory, choosing to talk symbolically about those who are close to his heart, but who have left; about the difficult passage from childhood to adulthood; about desire and frustration; about losses great and small; about the desire – or need – not to remain stationary, but to travel, which often supersedes the pull of ancestry and of nostos: the longing for home.