New exhibitions in Larnaca and Paphos
The island’s art scene welcomes two new art exhibitions this week, this time in Larnaca and Paphos.
On Friday, March 20, the Larnaca Municipal Art Gallery presents the retrospective exhibition by Andreas Paraskevas titled Testimonies of an Unseen Time.
Curated by Suzana Anastasi, the exhibition brings together works spanning more than three decades of artistic creation, from the late 1980s to the present day.
Through paintings, stage design models and theatre costumes, it presents a multidimensional artistic journey in which painting enters into dialogue with theatrical thinking and staged narrative.
Opening on March 21, is Paris Christodoulou’s exhibition Uneven Fields at 4 Agiou Kendea street in Paphos.
This exhibition “takes the landscape of Souskiou, an abandoned village on the east bank of the Diarizos River,” the organisers explain, “as its starting point to examine the interwoven relations between ecology, systems of extraction and dispossession and the human and more-than-human histories through which uneven landscapes are made and remade.
“Through repeated site engagements, Christodoulou documents Souskiou’s wildering ecological succession in the aftermath of human displacement, produced by overlapping histories of colonialism, nationalism, and war, where amidst rubble, accumulated waste, and the looming, perilous presence of wind turbines on the surrounding hills, wildlife emerges as an ecology that persists.”
Testimonies of an Unseen Time
Retrospective exhibition by Andreas Paraskevas. March 20-June 6. Larnaca Municipal Art Gallery, Larnaca. Opening night: 7pm.
Uneven Fields
Exhibition by Paris Christodoulou. March 21-April 25. 4 Agiou Kendea street, Paphos. Opening night: 7pm. www.megadence.com