Rebecca Efstathiou is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, video, sound, text and photography. Her practice explores states of transition, memory, movement, borders and traces — including the ways in which places and bodies retain evidence of what has happened within or upon them.
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Her work often develops through recurring images, gestures and forms that move between different media and reappear across time. She is interested in thresholds: between one place and another, presence and absence, visibility and obscurity, before and after. These concerns frequently emerge through works that engage with crossing, division, temporality, memory and the instability of meaning.
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Tracing is central to her process. She traces spaces, forms, movements and gestures, using repetition, recording and mark-making to reveal what remains, disappears or shifts over time.
 
In recent work, the body becomes both subject and recording surface: bruises, pressure marks, cuts, scars and other temporary alterations are photographed as evidence of contact and duration. These works consider skin as a changing surface on which experience briefly becomes visible.
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Across her practice, earlier works sometimes acquire new meanings when seen from a later point in time. As if foreshadowing  what is to come. This recursive relationship between past and present — where memory, recognition and foreshadowing continually alter one another — has become an increasingly important part of her work.