collapsed oikos (2024)
Exhibited in 'Collective Personal' at Edit Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus.
In the three sculptures I displayed, I explored my grandparents’ experience of conflict and displacement. I worked with objects and photos that remain from their old house in Larnaca. My aim was to illustrate how fading and fragile memories can be by abstracting these objects and images through different processes, such as salt-crystallisation.
fragmentations of a collapsed oikos no.1, archival photograph printed on canvas and crystallised with salt (35 x 35 cm).
Salt became a poignant material—not only because my grandparents were from Larnaca, where there is an abundance of salt lakes, but also because salt is not sweet but bitter, much like the bitterness of conflict. I feel compelled to work more with salt, as it is representative of my island, which is surrounded by it.
fragmentations of a collapsed oikos no.2, epoxy resin (varied dimensions).
only fragmental objects remain from our fading house, 3D scanned/printed ashtray and cigarette, archival photograph laser-engraved on plexiglass (varied dimensions).