Pafos Press 6 February 2024
THE OLD PAST HAS GONE
Palia Electriki, Paphos
17 February - 9 March
Daily except Monday 11am-6pm
The Art Exhibition "The Old Past Has Gone" opens at the Cultural Center Palia Electriki in Paphos on Saturday, February 17th.
The opening will take place on Saturday at 6.30pm and the mayor of Pafos Phaidonas Phaidonos and Michalis Marathevtis will speak on behalf of the Petridei Foundation. It is noted that the Petridei Foundation's participation in the art event is part of the three-year anniversary of the Petridei Foundation.
The artists Andreas Savva CY, Christoph Christoph Brünggel CH, Giannos Oikonomou CY, Gioula Hatzigeorgiou CY Elektromoon HU/PL, Elli Kontou GR, Eugenia Vassiloudi CY, Kyriakos Kallis CY, Patricia Jäggi CH, Rahme Veziroglu CY take part in the exhibition, and it is curated by IN SUTU group.
The title refers to the fact that there will inevitably be changes in the way we live, think, and relate to nature, as a result of climate change, but also due to unexpectedly serious conflicts, the rise of intolerant tendencies, economic insecurity, violent displacement of populations .
It revolves around four sections: The reversal of the Prometheus myth which was linked It revolves around four sections: The reversal of the Prometheus myth which was linked to the idea that there can be a straight anthropocentric, endless progress, even based on fire. This modernist utopia is not only wrong but also partly responsible for the current crisis. Consequently, a new approach is necessary, which will turn back to the Earth, to the soil, to a new relationship with the rest of the biosphere in a truly symbiotic and balanced relationship. The sea, the third section of the exhibition, is the site of the heaviest environmental and humanitarian disasters, but at the same time, its fluid openness and magnificent depth offer a hopeful, if frightening, image of a new order. Finally, nature is a lost and repressed dimension of our existence, like a severed body limb that still hurts and needs healing. This healing is not a reconnection of two separate entities - man and nature - but a reintegration into an intricate web of endless interconnections.
The works develop a dialogue with the above and with each other, warn, or indicate alternative gazes, using different media and materials such as site installations, soundscapes, performance, VR and video, prints and collages, sculpture and drawing. Because art does not propose solutions, art is a sphere without a periphery or a center, it is a web of interconnections that moves competitively in time on a global level beyond anthropocentric limits of perception. Art is thinking from the future, it can show the things that the senses do not perceive.
Sponsors of the event are the Deputy Ministry of Culture, the Petrideo Foundation of Paphos and the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment
