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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34661| Title: | Embrace Empathy: Exploring the Spectrum of Understanding | Authors: | Pericleous, Vicky | Major Field of Science: | Humanities | Field Category: | Arts | Keywords: | Arts;Exhibitions;empathy & sustainability;understanding Empathy;Art synergies;Cultural landscapes & Empathy;pedagogy through art;Nature & Empathy | Issue Date: | 30-Mar-2024 | Source: | International Exhibition, Vorres Museum | March 30 - May 15, 2024,curated by Olga Daniylopoulou, in the context of «EMPACT – Empathy and Sustainability: The Art of Thinking like a Mountain,» co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the EU. | Link: | https://www.empact-project.org/exhibitions/ | Project: | EMPACT – Empathy and Sustainability: The Art of Thinking Like a Mountain | Conference: | Embrace Empathy: Exploring the Spectrum of Understanding | Abstract: | The exhibition is organized by the Vorres Museum, a member and collaborator of the EMPACT group, and includes artists and artworks created as part of various actions carried out by all collaborating entities from all participating countries, along with Greek artists invited to enrich the exhibition with their own perspective on the program’s major themes. The exhibition is curated by Olga Daniylopoulou and is accompanied by the publication of a high-quality and content-rich catalog. Additionally, the Vorres Museum is organizing an educational program related to the artists and artworks participating in the exhibition. 26 artist in total are presented at the Vorres Museum in this group Show; 17 have collaborated in some action with one of the 7 European partners of the EMPACT project. Additionally, works of 9 Greek artists were selected by the curator to intersperse with their works, addressing the issues discussed by the EMPACT project in the context of its actions. The exhibition includes works from various collaborative programs, workshops and residencies: | Description: | Extract from the text of Cathryn Drake, writer 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. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34661 | Rights: | @EMPACT @vorresmuseum @vickypericleous | Type: | Exhibitions | Affiliation : | Cyprus University of Technology Vorres Museum |
Funding: | Creative Europe program of the EU. | Publication Type: | Selected Artwork |
| Appears in Collections: | European Projects Deliverables |
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