Sissy Doutsiou - Insult of Public Modesty

2025

Body, Words, Physicality, Poetry, Rebellion, Revolution, Narrative, Boundaries

Sissy Doutsiou - Insult of Public Modesty

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Art Direction, Packaging

In her debut album Προσβολή Δημοσίας Αιδούς (Insult of Public Modesty), Sissy Doutsiou presents an intense spoken-word record that is both fierce and vulnerable, unfolding a narrative of rebellion and stretching language to its boundaries. Rooted in this perspective, the design approaches her texts as a pulsing body, evoking poetry’s physicality. Credits and titles on the back-cover trace the artist’s silhouette, reflecting the cover artwork in a layered dialogue.

Inside, lyrics are placed in rigid columns symbolizing the constraints of bourgeois morality and typeset in an interwar-era Greek typeface reminiscent of archival records that once deemed expression indecent. Within these narrow grids, words manifest the struggle to breath — stretching to their limits, trembling, cracking, and breaking free. The labels feature a typographic monogram derived from the title’s initials (Π.Δ.Α.), distilling the album’s title into a unified mark that serves as an emblem of defiance.

Credits

Design, Layout: Giorgos Papadakis / Cover artwork: John Mitropoulos / Production: The Institute of Experimental Arts / Release notes: Label: Inner Ear • Poetry, Spoken word: Sissy Doutsiou • Music Production: Dimitris Koufoudakis (tracks 1,2), Van Fog (track 3), Orphx (track 4), Blakaut (track 6), Biomass (track 8) • Music for tracks 5,7: ROLVND • Production of tracks 5,7: Morton • Recorded at: Hot Box Music Studio (tracks 1,2), Pineline Music Lab (tracks 4,5,6,7) • Mixed by: Dimitris Koufoudakis (track 1), Orphx (track 4), Incognito M. (tracks 5,6,7) • Post Sound Mixing: George Deligiannis (track 1), Anna Stereopoulou (track 3) • Mastering: Yiannis Christodoulatos (Sweetspot Productions).