About my work
My work is mainly sculptural and photographic. I’m often very interested in the relationships between sculptural forms and images and the ways to create visual or contextual contrasts and equalities and recreate observational experiences.
My projects usually make reference in the actual political situation in Cyprus, my country of origin which since 1974 has been divided in two parts after an illegal military invasion. The two parts, the occupied one and the free one are separated by a buffer zone controlled by the UN.
The separation of my country and the fact that I grew up in the last divided capital in the world, become the starting point to develop in my work questions about boundaries and points of view around a territory in general. The points of interest and my sources for my work are usually objects that mark out a frontier, and they can have a symbolic, poetic and international value like barriers in the street, the surface of a wall, testimonies of people and landscapes of geopolitical territories.
From the reading and research of history, archaeology, from my observations of objects, textures and urban and military installations that inspire me, I find a motivation to experiment between various materials and mediums like casting, collage and projections. The notion of Layers is major in my procedure of work as well as in the final result of each piece.
Through my work, I would like to propose my point of view about this subject, the one of a young man who grew up in the frontiers of a past war, or a suspended conflict, without having traumatic war experience but for his generation, this rather mysterious backdrop, of walking around the ruins and war remains is utterly normal.
