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PROJECT INDEX Adonis Archontides 26. Male? CY/GB. Visual Artist trying to figure things out. Contact me or view my About/CV. Website Research Blog Photography Blog Video Blog ελντιαρ Instagram Twitter FILTERS // #installation #sculpture #illustration #photography #design #collage #video #3D #text

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Teaser image for a new project

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The Phenomenal Present, Installation views from exhibition Rooms to Contemplate at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Centre, 2017.

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Crumpled Adonis-brand plastic water bottle, dimensions variable, 2017.

Clockwise from top left: Adonis (Nikolas) Adonis (Seto) Adonis (Haya) Adonis (Dimitris)

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Beyond An Event Horizon

As said by writer and curator Irit Rogoff, there is a recognition “that the subjects and the forms we have inherited neither accommodate the complex realities we are trying to live out, nor the ever more attenuated ways we have of thinking about them.”[1] Contemplating the community of young artists from Cyprus, the myriad of situations, localities and subjects present a constellation of materials and ideas that, as Rogoff says, play out our complex realities: appearing intricately entwined even as they exist seemingly amidst contradictions and impossibilities. Looking toward a dialogical praxis where “art as a material practice be[comes] inseparable from art as discursive practice”[2], the work created by this community can be seen as an elongated conversation and a site of generative activity. Expounded beyond a set framework, the inheritance of place is contextualised within the ever increasing transient and globalised world of artistic production.

Embracing a durational, open-ended collaboration – in which authorship is removed from constraints – the gallery is introduced as the site of social production and a place in which material presented remains fluid “deftly avoid[ing] the stillness of a … exhibition through an evolving rehearsal of the objects themselves”[3]. Bringing together these two states – a constellation of conversations between the young artists of Cyprus and the practice of exhibition making as a collaborative and experimental process – Beyond An Event Horizonseeks to open up the context of place and identity in the formation of an artistic community, and consciously question if the distinct social, political and physical landscape of Cyprus has an innate influence on the participants collective practice.

[1] Irit Rogoff, ‘Smuggling’ - An Embodied Criticality, transform.eipcp.net, 2008

[2] Paul O’Neill, The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012), p 18.

[3] Sophia Hao, A Cut A Scratch A Score: a comic opera in three parts, Cooper Gallery, http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/exhibitions/cutascratchascore/ (accessed 8 November 2015)

By Emily Gray and Leontios Toumpouris

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Adonis (Self-portrait) is one in a series of crumpled Adonis-brand plastic bottles, acting as portraits of myself. This piece was installed in the Phytorio pond for the exhibition culminating from the three-day Beyond An Event Horizon workshop, organised by Leontios Toumpouris and Emily Gray, as part of the MO17 activities.

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documenting the passage of time in relation to the set up of the exhibition

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Photos from Beyond An Event Horizon workshop held at Phytorio. Organised by Leontios Toumpouris and Emily Grey.

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Garden (Berlin), Vase by VEB Haldensleben East Germany, vase by Carstens West Germany, soil, lettuce, The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire by WikiLeaks, Brexit: How Britain Left Europe by Denis MacShane, Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz, Die Berliner Mauer by Hans-Hermann Hertle, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, dimensions variable, 2016.

Installation views from CtA Remix, 1010 Hall, Nicosia.

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Have a look at mine and Melanie’s photographic conversations over at @elntiar 💖

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Curated by Natalie Kynigopoulou, this is the first of a series of exhibitions by young curators for upcoming artists.

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Untitled. 2016. Ceramic pot sealed at the neck. 70 x 40 cm.

Site-specific piece produced for the exhibition culminating from a group residency at Fytorio Eikastikis Kalliergias.

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Teaster trailer I co-directed and produced with Dimitris Chimonas, for his event for The Yard Residency at Palio Xydadiko in Limassol, First Time of Time.

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A temporary mural I made during last year’s Streetlife Festival in my hometown, Limassol. Need to go through my archives and find more photos... I’m sure I took some...

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Setting up Common Collections 2 at Point Centre for Contemporary Art, for the Xarkis Group Exhibition

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Some photos from setting up Residents S01: Stories in the Greenhouse