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Seeing Through Melancholia: Transcultural Melancholias / Hüzün in the Eastern Mediterranean
House of Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios
Nicosia, Cyprus
Date
25 October until 8 November 2023
Project type
Visual Arts - Installations, Contemporary Art
Production
Catherine Louis Nikita
Curation
Dr. Gabriel Koureas and Dr. Alev Adil
Collaboration
Department of Antiquities
This exhibition introduces modern and contemporary transcultural melancholias in the Eastern Mediterranean. In addition to the international contributions of the renowned Parisian photographers Eugène Atget and Edith Guerin, Armenian-Turkish photographer Ara Güler and Lithuanian photographer Arūnas Baltėnas, this exhibition will bring together contemporary artists from Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean to the House of Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios, a space of transcultural memories, encounters and histories.
Participating International Artists: Eugène Atget (1857-1927) — France, Arūnas Baltėnas – Lithuania, Edith Guérin (1910-1998) — France, Ara Güler (1928-2018)— Τurkey, Leslie Hakim-Dowek – United Kingdom/ Lebanon, Mustafa Hulusi – United Kingdom /Cyprus
Artists-Poets Collaborations: Etel Adnan, Alev Adil – Lily Michaelides, Katerina Attalidou – Niki Marangou (1948-2013), Asli Bolayir – Filiz Naldöven (1953-2016), Kyriaki Costa – Stephanos Stephanides, Peter Eramian – Stelios Kallinikou – Haytham el-Wardany, Lia Lapithi – Daphne Nikita – Elena Fitikidou Alonefti, Alexandros Pissourios – Lyssandros Pitharas (1960-1992), Leontios Toumpouris – Mehmet Yashin, Natalie Yiaxi
