Dis-locate, a new threads project by Limassol art NGO NeMe where the definition of popular cultural ideology is being challenged and constantly revised as an established aesthetic by placing greater focus on its catalytic action of becoming. Drawing on various mythological, archeological and religious references, these works are less than historical and descriptive representations but rather, examples indicative of the processes by which meaning is being transmitted in attempt to contextualize Cypriot contemporary identity. This is evidenced by the artists’ use of unconventional materials whose specificity is being explored through their processes of making preceding local concepts assumed as their a-priory. These works concern a visual alteration that has no self contained subject but are rather a result of accumulated heterogeneous materials whose often inherent indeterminacy subvert holistic readings and appear to be in continual flux. The framework in which these works are presented is an interdisciplinary one, blurring the distinctions amongst their technological, social, political and cultural stimulus thus also questioning the permeability of the exhibition space itself being constantly shifted and evaluated as an open one. Characterized by a sense of dislocation, this exhibition asks that we re-evaluate our interpretation of cultural legitimacy through the means of a perpetual and critical visuality that is less concerned with coming to ends with an ideological and fixed locality but more concerned with what Claire Doherty4 states as being “the josting contingency of mobilities and relations that constitute contemporaneity”.

Curated by Natalie Kynigopoulos.