Editorial

78
130 years in the same pace, two-dimensional,
alone, going nowhere. We are trapped
in a free-floating reality. But there is a sense
of the return to earth, the lost land. Reunification
is going to happen inevitably
because the market, the geography, the international
dynamics will do it from below.
But when it does these will be nothing to
celebrate for it will not be an ideological
project but a de facto progress.
lia lapithi
Born in 1963. She studied Art (Bachelor
of Fine Arts) and Architecture (Bachelor of
Environmental Design – Architecture) at
the UCSC, California. She has also obtained
a Master of Fine Arts degree from Lancaster
University, as well as the Diploma of Architecture
(RIBA 2), from the Canterbury
Institute of Art and Design. She has had
Yiannos
Economou,
Cross Country
Run, 2004.
Video.
several solo shows, and has taken part in
group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad.
Amongst the international exhibitions she
participated in are the 3rd Florence Biennale
(2001), where she was awarded the
4th prize for multimedia, and the 20th
International Alexandria Biennale (1999),
where she was awarded the Grand Prix (First
Overall Prize). [www.lialapithi.com]
A woman’s body is framed within a landscape
(salt marsh) which, in turn, is inscribed
- both literally and as 'art' - by her body, in
Lia Lapithi’s film, 26 Weeks, part of the Lick-
Bed installation. A largely autobiographical
narrative undermines, however, the agelong
equation, woman-nature. The 'story'
is one of endangered pregnancy; of salt,
not just as an essential ingredient (visitors
are invited to lick the salt blocks arranged
as a bed 'mattress' on a metal frame, in the