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72 The Curator’s concept Antonis Danos, the exhibition curator consciously aimed against heterogeneous, survey show and proceeded to include only seven artists (showing mainly installations and videos) who, in his view: "produce work that is relevant to contemporary, artistic and overall cultural concerns and issues, and with whom I felt I could engage into a creative dialogue". "This dialogue", he explained, "was to evolve around certain concerns and interests of mine (with regard to contemporary art) which I have condensed under the title, Somatopia: Mapping Sites, Siting Bodies. By this I did not intend a thematic exhibition, in any sense. After all, I believe that all artistic creation is, to an extent, an exploration, a negotiation and a rendering of spaces – metaphorical or literal, as imaginary or actual places, as natural or artificial landscapes as 'sites' or 'non-sites'. And more often than not, within these explorations, bodies are situated – whether as presences or absences – in all of their manifestations and symbolisms and as agents and / or receivers of actions, events, experiences and discourses. "The fact that all seven artists live and work primarily in Cyprus unavoidably carries certain particularities – the most immediate 'site' is the Cypriot environment, and the 'bodies' they negotiate, explore and situate are bodies within, products of this environment. Yet this is far from claiming that all these artists share some clearly defined, common Cypriot identity. In a world of great mobility and diminished distances, each of us is defined by as much diverse as common experiences, due to contacts with, and absorptions from various and different cultures. Therefore even when contemporary Cypriot artists are mapping aspects of a common territory – the Cypriot environment – and exploring 'bodies' within it, each one is doing so from a different perspective, since each one is situated at a different nodal point within this space. Antonis Danos, the exhibition curator, urged the artists to engage into a dialogue with art critics and historians. The resulting texts included in the exhibition catalogue have opened up various routes of communication between viewers and the art works which may be different from those intended by the artists themselves. Furthermore they have enriched the conceptual frameworks within which the artists had originally sited their works and negotiated these artworks from a different perspective. The curator also expressed his thanks to Dr Eleni Nikita, Director of the Cultural Services, who entrusted him with this work, to Louli Michaelidou, Cultural Officer who offered invaluable assistance as well as to Agathi Kalisperas, Director of the Hellenic Centre and Marie Kalli for their equally valuable assistance. klitsa antoniou Born in 1968. Studied Fine Arts at the Wimbledon School of Art, at St. Martins School of Art (B.F.A.), and at the Pratt Institute New York (M.F.A.). She has had solo exhibitions in Cyprus, the United States and China. Her international participations include, amongst others, "A View to the Mediterranean Sea: The Cyprus Case", Herzliya Artists’ Residence, Israel (2005); Lulea Biennale, Sweden (2005); Terra Vita", Xiamen, China (2004); Biennale of Jeollabuk, South Korea (2003);
Klitsa Antoniou, A-Lethe Hydor, 2005. Installation with frames, seaweed, prints, string (detail). "Open 2002", Venice; Cairo Biennale (2001); "De-Core-Instanz: Deconstruction, Installation, Orensanz"; New York (2000); "Six workshops in Sarajevo", Rome(1999); Biennale of Young Artists, Cable Factory, Helsinki (1997); Biennale of Young Artists, Turin (1997); Biennale of Young Artists, Rijeka (1995). She is cofounder of the Atrageous Group. [www.klitsa.com] Klitsa Antoniou’s construction – installation is entitled A-Lethe Hydor, which literally translates "Water of Truth", in which A-lethe derives from a synthesis of A (denoting absence) and lethe (forgetting) thus "water of forgetting; a concept borrowed from Greek mythology, is the water the dead had to drink before entering the Kingdom of Hades, the god of the underworld. 73
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