Age: 18-11-1994 (26)
Born: The Hague, The Netherlands
Email: zoipahtaliasfotografie@gmail.com

Graduated June 2015 Photography
at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam

Graduated February 2021 Lifestyle Transformation Design
at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam

“She is intrigued by transforming mindsets”.

Zoï Pahtalias (26) is a conceptual visualizer (photographer)
and creative director in photography, film, installation
and set. 

As a future(sci-fi) oriented conceptual visualizer
and photographer her aim is to provoke our
ideologies and ethics about who we are and where we are headed.
She speculates on the future or human existence by exploring technological
singularity, the human body, biotechnology, beauty and science fiction.
In her work she intrigued by visuals that are great to look at
but the tone underneath shows it’s not a good world to live in.
That triggers ethical questions which leads to a discussion.
 


She is intrigued by transforming mindsets as an artist and longs
for a futuristic fantasy world where shocking issue are stimulated
and limits are being pushed. The future triggers more than the 
past as shown in her work: GOT MILQ where she wants to normalise
breastmilk in the future and HEARTAGE where she  designed
a hypodermic conversation piece that provides the real age of
the heart through your chest calculated by your body mass index.
With her visually easthetic projects she likes to interact,
intrigue her audience and reach specific target groups.

Artistic vision, drive and beliefs

‘’I think that humanity should adapt in this society and therefore
I like to sketch doom scenarios, this creates a mind set switch
from living to survival, which I find interesting because
people in such situations are forced to collaborate.
I am 100% for joining forces.
I also believe that sometimes "showing the bad" triggers reactions
and I like to provoke as this creates change and movement.

I like to work from a personal emotion or feeling.
There must be something strange, twisted or completely new in it.
A perfect image immediately makes it boring and monotonous.

I propagate social problems and implement them
in my own dystopian or utopian way.
For a new economy we need new lifestyles, new insights and new systems.
We as humanity have to do and apply this ourselves.