Corpus: Her embodied Archive
Artist & Works
Amaryllis Lazaridou


Amaryllis Lazaridou aka Psylithi is a multidisciplinary artist working with clay, sculptural forms and moving image. Her practice explores the body as a living archive shaped by memory, environment, and care. Drawing on oceanic forms and animistic perspectives, she approaches the sea as a matriarchal presence. Shell-like structures recur as vessels of protection, vulnerability, and survival, reflecting feminine ancestry and the porous relationship between human and nonhuman histories.


email:amaryllislaz@gmail.com
ins:@amaryllis_lily_melody




Oo-psychí (2023)

Ceramics / Clay

16cm X 6cm X 11cm, 2023



This clay sculpture explores the body and ocean as one. The body carries the souls of her ancestors, reconnecting with them in familiar landscapes. The sea becomes a portal to the underworld and the mother core, a space where lineage, memory, and spiritual presence converge.

At its center, the shell serves as a living archive shaped by growth, erosion, care, and survival reflecting how bodies hold histories over time. Clay preserves gesture and touch, embedding experience and ancestral memory into the surface. Through oceanic forms and material processes, the work traces feminine lineage and the porous exchange between human and nonhuman histories, offering the body as a mutable vessel of memory, connection, and transformation.