Wed, 26 Oct. 2022 - Sun, 13 Nov. 2022
Nicosia Municipal Theatre
Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean, has been on a path of development from as far back as the Middle Bronze Age (2600-2100 BC). Trade and maritime activities will eventually endow the island with a cultural identity of tradition merged with cosmopolitanism into an original amalgam.
For a long time, archaeology had invested photography with a single mission; to document and record for study, publication and inventory purposes. Today, however, contemporary photography has broken free from the shackles imposed on it in the early 20th c. to construe its patrimonial task in a completely different light, deploying an aesthetic animated by the intensity of lyric poetry.
The program for this year’s Festival, which has a strong scent of a woman, including established female artists and showcasing young Cypriot women in the arts, while sanding against the phenomena of violence against women. In this exhibition, the gaze of the photographer Stefanos Kouratzis is cast upon more than ten sculpted depictions of goddesses, divinities and female statuettes and figurines forming part of the collections of Cyprus’ Department of Antiquities, on display at the Cyprus Museum in Lefkosia and at the Archaeological Museum of the Lemesos District.
The statuettes and figurines illustrate different styles of Cypriot art, from the Chalcolithic (4th millennium BC) to the Roman period. The photographs therefore unveil artworks that, through the uniqueness of their form, bring out the particularity of the civilisation of Cyprus.
Research - editing: Katerina Loui Nikita
Produced by: Press and Information Office
Identity of the festival
Sponsors:
Sponsor: Onassis Stegi
Hospitality sponsors: Vino Cultura, The Classic Hotel
Supporters: Travel House, Moiseos Digital Print House, Phi. Andreou Group, ColourPix Digital Printing Company
THEATRE/ MUSIC/ PARALLEL PROGRAM/ DANCE