Editorial

middle of the installation), but also as a
means for abortion; the salt lake’s expanse
treads the edge between fertility and sterility.
At the same time, it has itself been sterilised
and turned into an artificial ground
in the exhibition space.
In a conversation with Henry Meyric Hughes,
published in the exhibition catalogue,
Lia Lapithi confesses that the film 26 Weeks
deals obliquely with her fears of illness and
death and their closeness to everyday life,
adding that "like the rest of the artworks
included in the exhibition, it deals with the
poetics of the body’s fragility and should
be appreciated for its fundamentally lifeaffirming
qualities." H.M. Hughes agreed
that the life-affirming quality of her work,
its aspiration to purity and catharsis, its
strongly visual, aesthetic and tactile appeal
are evident.
evgenia vasiloude
Born in 1962. Studied (1981-88) at the
Kiev School of Fine Arts, Ukraine, in the
Department of Engraving and Graphic
Arts. Her studies included drawing, painting,
engraving, lithography, etching, book
illustration, poster design, calligraphy, industrial
design and history of art. She has
had four solo exhibitions, and has taken
part in several group shows in Cyprus
and abroad. She has participated, additionally,
in international engraving exhibitions,
including, "Lilla Europa 2002: 2nd
Biennale of small scale painting and printing",
Hallsberg and Örebro, Sweden; "5"
Triennale mondiale de l’estampe petit format
Chamaliers 2000", Auvergne, France:
5th Engraving Biennale, Belgrade (1998);
4th Engraving Biennale, Gyor, Hungary
(1998). She received the second jury
Lia Lapithi, 26 Weeks. Video.
prize at the 2004 Cairo Biennale. She lives
and works in Cyprus.
In Evgenia Vasiloude’ s Hymn to Demeter
installation, nature has seized the walls of
this space, in the form of layers of engraved
prints-images of wheat. Outdoors has been
brought indoors - a 'non-site' standing for
a 'site' - while, the apparent conflation,
nature-feminine-creation, is challenged
as much as redefined: over the projected
(video) images, a (female) voice recites
the hymnal (male) logos to the goddess of
the earth, and those very words have been,
additionally, inscribed visually within the
pictures of nature. In the process, the artist
herself has re-created the natural into the
artificial of art-culture. (Antonis Danos)
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