New Forms, New Voices: Kristina Kaspi
Kristina Kaspi’s practice investigates the connection between the female image and elements of absurdity, surrealism, and symbolic metaphor. Her recent work, including the You Are What You Eat and Croissant Girl series, constructs human figures from food elements and culinary textures to explore cultural identity and the mechanics of consumption. In these pieces, the body is rendered as a soft, layered form that evokes both pleasure and vulnerability. The dough-like material retains a visual seduction that erases the traditional distance between viewer and subject, functioning simultaneously as a symbol of domestic warmth and an object of immediate desire.
By projecting this logic onto the human form, Kaspi critiques how the female figure is often perceived through the lens of consumption. The closed eyes of her subjects signal a turning inward, reclaiming subjectivity in a moment of introspection, rather than performance. This creates a subtle tension between intimacy and observation, where the viewer is left to navigate the boundary between the living and the edible. The painterly texture emphasizes the layered structure of the dough, resembling both skin and pastry, effectively dissolving the line between the biological body and the consumable object.
Kristina Kaspi (b. 1996) is a Cyprus-based artist of Russian origin, living in Nicosia. After graduating from the Bryansk Regional College of Music and Fine Arts in 2015, she spent a decade working in digital illustration, before returning to traditional painting in 2025. Her acrylic works on canvas retain a slightly cartoon-like aesthetic influenced by Japanese visual culture, distinguishing her physical practice from her earlier digital career.
125 Space is proud to present New Forms, New Voices, a group exhibition showcasing the work of eleven emerging artists selected from a competitive open call that highlighted the vibrant and diverse talent currently shaping the local art scene.
As a platform committed to supporting emerging talent, 125 Space provides a professional context in which new artists can present their work and engage with collectors, curators, and the wider creative community. New Forms, New Voices reflects a dedicated interest in how these artists are redefining visual language through rigorous experimentation, material exploration, and critical engagement with contemporary conditions. While the selected works respond, both explicitly and intuitively, to urgent questions of identity, place, and cultural inheritance, they remain firmly open to broader global dialogues, demonstrating how new voices contribute to ongoing conversations within the international artistic community.
Exhibition opening
Friday, 5th of June 2026 at 18:00
Exhibition duration
6th of June – 18th of July 2026