Eleni Ioannidou Doctor – Artist Born in Athens and now based in Rethymno, Eleni Ioannidou is an internist specializing in infectious diseases. After twenty years of work in the public hospital system, she now runs a private practice and serves as the scientific director of the Internal Medicine Department at Asklipios Clinic. Art has always been a timeless refuge for her. She began with oil painting, glass painting, and other materials. Over the past five years, she has expressed herself through a unique medium: mosaics made from expired pills. The idea was born at the city’s social pharmacy. The colorful expired pills, destined for recycling or special waste bins, were transformed into “tiles” full of color, shape, and meaning. During the pandemic, this art became a way of release and communication a form of personal storytelling about the things that touch us every day: the pain of illness, war, discrimination, the environment. At the center of it all stands the woman. The woman in touch with her wild nature. The woman trying to communicate with her soul, to blend into her natural surroundings, to savor life. Medicines expire, Αrt lasts.

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