Nana Sachini (born 1975) lives and works in Greece. Her practice spans a variety of media including drawing, sculpture, installation and performance. She is preoccupied with investigating the unconscious, feminine sexuality and anxiety. These issues are explored through her idiosyncratic deconstruction and re arrangement of the human form.

Nana’s expressive and gestural approach to materials adds to the visceral qualities used to depict her versions or distortions of the body. Honest child-like imagery is strongly used in her work, but it is always pertaining to a deeper layer of concerns that are being subtly addressed by the artist. Humour is also used, in the composition of her choice of materials and in her use of the Surrealist technique of automatic drawing.   

   
Nana’s work is informed through her interest in psychoanalytic theory, from which she examines the interrelationship and inconsistency of pre linguistic communication, creativity, and gender. Contrasts and the tension between opposites also feature strongly in her work. She says, ‘The work possesses an ambiguous attitude of being, or being ‘in between’, and they suggest states of psychological and physical disarray. On the one side they occupy a space between desire and repulsion, innocence and depravity, but they are all imbued with a heavy irony and a cheeky mood ’.

Nana studied at the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki, and then went on to study the Postgraduate Diploma and MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Her work has been exhibited in Greece, Germany and the UK.