| In Artemis Alcalay's multifaceted work, the element of "stitching" constitutes an additional approach to the two main axes going through her entire artistic path: her infatuation with fabrics, homage to the family tradition of the fabric trade and, secondly, historical memory, also homage to family history, but with a much broader field of application.
With flexibility, dexterity in handling materials, and imaginative combinations of her artistic motifs in an endless variety of materials and techniques, she demonstrates her love of art's tactile dimension; she gives primary materials a metaphorical dimension over and above the main goal they serve; she, finally, marries cultural differences in a new seductive chapter.
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The deeply emotional, experiential character of her exclusively human-centric oeuvre strikes every chord in the public's sensitivity: on each of her embroidered motifs we observe the embroidery of human adventure: of brotherly love, of eros, of death, of birth, of persecution, of longing, of friendship, of genocide, of family... the list is endless.
 Ioanna Alexandri
Art Historian
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