Professor of Fine Arts in the Fine Arts Department of the Cyprus University of Technology(CUT) Klitsa Antoniou will present her art exhibition entitled «Making waves» at the historical Porvoo Art Factory, in Finland.
Klitsa Antoniou’s work, always drawing from archival material, delves into issues of space, confinement, personal and political borders, and censorship in order to provide an immersive, empathic, multisensorial and participatory experience. By concentrating on incarcerated spaces, the artist brings these heterotopic spaces to the Porvoo Art Hall to release their imaginative potential within the space of the gallery and its rich history.
The multimedia exhibition uses sound, video and found material to marry the concept with the materiality of the installations. The video installation Something Exceedingly Strange is Happening this Year (2020) brings the visitor close to Luxemburg’s writings with a video projection which uses her prison letters and diaries. The juxtaposition of the reading of her writings and the mesmerising visuality of the video installation attempt an empathic identification with Luxemburg’s fears, pain but most importantly, imaginative optimism.
Recordings of illegal and pirate stations in the installation Making Waves (2022) raise issues of political and personal censorship in an era of constant surveillance where the panopticon of the state has expanded its web to unprecedented dimensions.
Freedom of movement, surveillance and the artificiality of borders is explored in the installation No Photographs Should be Taken Beyond this Point (2020) and pose pertinent questions in relation not only to zones of armed conflict but, most importantly, to our everyday lives and the borders that are erected around us.
No Photographs should be taken beyond this point uproots from their original political context the found signs to display them in the gallery: the armed conflict in Cyprus that led to the division of the island in 1974 and the creation of a border that divides the island from East to West which is known in Cyprus as the Green Line.
These artistic interventions strongly question the artificiality and absurdity of borders in a time when the borders of Europe seem to be under threat.
The exhibition will be hosted at the PORVOON TAIDEHALLI gallery from September 30 until October 23, 2022. The opening of the exhibition will take place on Thursday, September 29, 2022.
The exhibition is held with the support of the Embassy of Cyprus in Helsinki, the Cyprus’ Deputy Ministry of Culture, the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and the "Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab".
Προκήρυξη Καλλιτεχνικού Διαγωνισμού με θέμα την εξάλειψη της βίας κατά των Γυναικών
Professor of Fine Arts in the Fine Arts Department of the Cyprus University of Technology(CUT) Klitsa Antoniou will present her art exhibition entitled «Making waves» at the historical Porvoo Art Factory, in Finland.
Klitsa Antoniou’s work, always drawing from archival material, delves into issues of space, confinement, personal and political borders, and censorship in order to provide an immersive, empathic, multisensorial and participatory experience. By concentrating on incarcerated spaces, the artist brings these heterotopic spaces to the Porvoo Art Hall to release their imaginative potential within the space of the gallery and its rich history.
The multimedia exhibition uses sound, video and found material to marry the concept with the materiality of the installations. The video installation Something Exceedingly Strange is Happening this Year (2020) brings the visitor close to Luxemburg’s writings with a video projection which uses her prison letters and diaries. The juxtaposition of the reading of her writings and the mesmerising visuality of the video installation attempt an empathic identification with Luxemburg’s fears, pain but most importantly, imaginative optimism.
Recordings of illegal and pirate stations in the installation Making Waves (2022) raise issues of political and personal censorship in an era of constant surveillance where the panopticon of the state has expanded its web to unprecedented dimensions.
Freedom of movement, surveillance and the artificiality of borders is explored in the installation No Photographs Should be Taken Beyond this Point (2020) and pose pertinent questions in relation not only to zones of armed conflict but, most importantly, to our everyday lives and the borders that are erected around us.
No Photographs should be taken beyond this point uproots from their original political context the found signs to display them in the gallery: the armed conflict in Cyprus that led to the division of the island in 1974 and the creation of a border that divides the island from East to West which is known in Cyprus as the Green Line.
These artistic interventions strongly question the artificiality and absurdity of borders in a time when the borders of Europe seem to be under threat.
The exhibition will be hosted at the PORVOON TAIDEHALLI gallery from September 30 until October 23, 2022. The opening of the exhibition will take place on Thursday, September 29, 2022.
The exhibition is held with the support of the Embassy of Cyprus in Helsinki, the Cyprus’ Deputy Ministry of Culture, the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and the "Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab".
