Cyprus (Republic of) 2025
The pavilion is collectively put together by people with backgrounds in architecture, drystone building, curating, hospitality, and the arts, as well as invited public participation.
Title: (To the Stones) we lent you our breath and you whispered it back to the earth
Commissioner: Petros Dymiotis – Cultural Officer at the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture
Curators: Sevina Floridou, Nicola Mitropoulou & Clara Zinecker, Fisherwomxn (Seta Astreou Karides, Miriam Gatt, Ioulita Toumazi) and Aaron Gatt
Exhibitors: Terract Salamiou (Argyris Panayiotou, Panayiotis Panayiotou, Vasiliki Petropoulou-Panayiotou), Aaron Gatt, Fisherwomxn (Seta Astreou Karides, Miriam Gatt, Ioulita Toumazi), Sevina Floridou, Nicola Mitropoulou; Clara Zinecker
Tracing the rhythms of drystone building practices, the exhibition proposes an operational chain of gathering, sorting and placing, establishing an intersection between ecology of the land and the commons of those inhabiting it. These links are explored through a series of static, performative and sonic activations, in both Venice and Cyprus.
ADDRESS
Calle del Pestrin, 3865, 30122 Castello, Venice, Italy
