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Featuring RU artist-in-residence Krsto Gligorjadis in the RU voices interview series 🎤
Krsto Gligorjadis is a multidisciplinary visual artist and performer whose work fuses ritual, myth, and contemporary questions of masculinity, shaped by the chauvinistic context in which he lives and works. Trained in law, pedagogy, graphic design, and visual arts, his interdisciplinary practice bridges gender rights, societal critique, and personal transformation. Through performance, installation, and participatory works, Gligorjadis explores how private emotions become public reflection, questioning what it means to be a man today. His body-centered practice functions as a therapeutic ritual, transforming trauma into embodied artwork and creating spaces of empathy, accountability, and healing.
Krsto was part of the exhibition “Home, Wound, Growing” at RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B, on Governors Island
The installation of “The Pants” presents two videos – an earlier film and a new one shot on Governors Island – depicting the artist walking in long red pants, also installed in the house. Referencing the now obsolete rite of passage of breeching, marking young boys’ transition into their first pair of pants, the piece investigates the role of a man in today’s society. The original performance consists of three acts: walking with the pants, recognizing social expectations; washing them as a symbol of responsibility; and hanging them, challenging traditional roles, and addressing wounds and growing.
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