Commissioner: Petros Dymiotis, Cultural Officer at the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture
Curators: Sevina Floridou, Nicola Mitropoulou & Clara Zinecker, Fisherwomxn (Seta Astreou Karides, Miriam Gatt, Ioulita Toumazi), Aaron Gatt
Exhibitors: Terract Salamiou (Argyris Panayiotou, Panayiotis Panayiotou, Vasiliki Petropoulou-Panayiotou), Aaron Gatt, Fisherwomxn (Seta Astreou Karides, Miriam Gatt, Ioulita Toumazi), Sevina Floridou, Nicola Mitropoulou & Clara Zinecker, Elena Savvidou
Cyprus (Republic of)
(To the Stones) we lent you our breath and you whispered it back to the earth
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Description
The eastern Mediterranean’s almost 10,000-year-old Fertile Crescent, from Persia across Mesopotamia to the Levant, cultivated terraced foodscapes through interconnected communities. Cyprus shares this geography, shaping its history over the long durée. In the Capitalocene, late-industrial transformations fracture land and communities through value extraction, while colonial, genocidal, and ecocidal violence displaces people and militarises ecologies. Within this context, drystone practices sustain a way of resisting systems of dispossession and ecological degradation, defending instead a system of value rooted in collective care and fair access to the land.
(To the Stones) we lent you our breath and you whispered it back to the earth.
Inspired by the chorus of stones in Sarah Ruhl’s play Eurydice.
