About

In 2018 Greek artist Theo Triantafyllidis, in need of an online avatar (those semi-pseudonymous, self-appointed self-portraits through which we identify amongst internet communities), adopted the appearance of an ork. Guided by his own interest in Monster Theory - the concept that pop-cultural fascination with fictional beasts, brutes, freaks and fiends represents a pervasive societal unease and promotes scaremongering or segregation - as well as an ambition to advance the already-in-progress queered disidentification of the fantasy species, Triantafyllidis’ ork alter-ego presents themselves …