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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34654| Title: | Exhibition Catalogue: Embrace Empathy: Exploring the Spectrum of Understanding | Other Titles: | The Tail of the Image | Authors: | Pericleous, Vicky | Major Field of Science: | Humanities | Field Category: | Arts | Keywords: | Arts;Exhibition Catalogue;Sustainability through the arts;Art as means to understanding empathy;Ecology & Art;Art practices as tools for resilience | Issue Date: | 30-Mar-2024 | Source: | EMPACT|Empathy and Sustainability: The Art of Thinking Like a Mountain, Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. | Link: | https://www.empact-project.org/wp-content/uploads/AP_VM_Embrace_Empathy_Catalogue_Digital_240315.pdf | Project: | EMPACT – Empathy and Sustainability: The Art of Thinking Like a Mountain | Related Dataset(s): | https://www.vorresmuseum.gr/content/108/empact-/ | Journal: | Ebrace Empathy: Exploring the spectrum of understanding | Abstract: | Exploring the Spectrum of Understanding, seeks to explore the role of art in promoting mutual understanding and unity in society. Art guides us to look and see, revealing the complex dimension of human perception. | Description: | Extract from Cathryn Drake's text on the work In the two-channel video The Tail of the Image (2020), transmitted only in the virtual space of the Internet, a fan-shaped window mirrors the form of a peacock’s tail. A black void slowly recedes across the screen to reveal a spiral staircase ascending the gutted grid of the commercial building next door, the source of the tiled pattern evoking the sun’s movement on the wall of the gallery. The window adorns a Turkish-Cypriot building in Paphos, abandoned in the forced migration and presently used as an office by a Greek Cypriot. The sunlight and shadows mutate and move across its facade to reflect the revolutions of the planet and the passing of time; when the neon is extinguished, the white window frame resembles bones, a sort of memento mori. The imagery continues to segue and dissolve in a poetic trajectory across different locations in Cyprus: Residential apartment blocks are reflected in the glass of a corporate high-rise, a palm tree entering the frame as if an unruly intruder. A medieval fortress and a modern apartment building correspond and converse as cars and people pass from one to the other, disappearing and then emerging from behind a pile of rubble on a construction site—calling to mind the chronology of one evolutionary epoch giving way to another, brick by brick, a snippet of DNA carried over from each. Finally the spare geometry of the urban buildings softens into the lush foliage of a forest, where the relentless patter of the pouring rain drowns everything with forgetfulness, as if a reminder that we are perpetually destroyed, cleansed, and reborn. A lone peacock settles on the tin rooftop of a forlorn village house in disrepair; a neon light flashes in the window as if a dysfunctional fixture on the verge of burning out. The only living presence is the bird—a symbol of resurrection and immortality. (Cathryn Drake, writer) | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34654 | Rights: | @EMPACT @vorresmuseum @vickypericleous | Type: | Exhibition catalogue | Affiliation : | Cyprus University of Technology Vorres Museum |
Funding: | Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. | Publication Type: | Non Peer Reviewed |
| Appears in Collections: | European Projects Deliverables |
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