Story:

Eugenia (Jenny) brought a nightgown that she uses in most of her performances, namely “The Jenny Phenomenon”. 

I made this hybrid persona. When we came out of the quarantine, I found out that there were way too many personas and most of them were hybrid, or meta-something, meta-human. I decided to deconstruct my persona and use it as it fits me. I wrote a manifesto about the use of a hybrid persona, explaining that an artist can transform their persona or make it disappear when necessary. Some of my performances I do as Eugenia, others as “The Jenny Phenomenon”. So, in Bagkeion, I wore this nightgown.

She explains that through her persona and her nightgown, she feels freer to express herself, as well as how liberating it can be to work with curators who don’t interfere with an artist’s work, mentioning her experience with Perasmata I.

They didn’t care if I was from the School of Fine Arts, or if I didn’t go to a private school to study the arts. I haven’t studied the arts in the academic sense, but I was around people who taught me how to learn to express myself and who gave me tools to express myself.

She continues,

As a woman of a late age – I’m in my ‘60s, now, thankfully – and as a person out of the system, it was very difficult for me to find places to perform. Being a woman, it was very difficult to perform and not make it an act of activism. […] Through Perasmata I found a way to express myself and to talk about my everyday life, also about sexuality, especially in my age, which is a very difficult topic no one wants to hear about, I found out. I can make political statements more freely through performance.