KYRIAKI COSTA » Art Projects

Rhizome,Drawing room, Omikron gallery, December 2011.
Rhizome

‘Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above the ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away–an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost the sense of something that lives and endures beneath the eternal flux. What we see is blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains…’

21st Century Iconoclasm (2011)

This short series of five photos depict important, European and non-European, historical monuments and personalities placed in the very heart of democracy, around the Acropolis in Athens.
You can see a symbiosis or disorder of different cultures; culture of today is on the move.
It is easy for people to move today, it is easy for people to carry their thoughts and memories with them, you carry your life with you but it is not easy to carry the culture of your motherland.
We learn to respect monuments; the ones presented here are very strong historical monuments. However, in this photo series the artist has given herself permission to let her mind place the depicted monuments as they could be when the mind finds itself on the border between the real and the unreal before going to sleep at night. The daily rests in the head of a European.

Near Far (2011), United States of Europe – Poland

The embroidery depicts a spider woman who symbolizes the networking between culture and identity. This correlation produces interchangeably positive or negative consequences. ‘Near-Far’ signifies an attempt to capture, within the boundaries of a single art piece, a number of different layers of association with an array of contemporary social values of the western world, such as democracy, freedom, history, respect, justice and ecology.

Between you me and the wall (2011)

This is my country and it’s unexpectedly beautiful (2010-2011)

Art Athina – Roots to Routes (2010)

The book

www.otempelisdrakos.com(2009)

«The return of lazy dragon» 2009 CD COVER

Presence in absence (2009)
2009 Solo Exhibition at the center of contemporary arts “Diatopos” in Nicosia
2009 part of the work presence in absence received a Pancyprian prize at “Weavings-Dokuma”, a competition organized by the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts, for the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
2009, her work “Presence in Absence” received the first prize
2009 PAD International Award in Italy, for the “Mediterranean Between Present and Future” Competition. The work was presented at the International Design contest.
The book

Migrations (2009)

2009 Migrations. “Presence in Absence works participated in the exhibition “Migrations”, curated by Heather Kourris, curator of the Apex Gallery in New York.

KPMG Building 2008

10th Cairo Bienale (2006)

Best Pavillion Prize

Weaving as art and as a metaphor

Prix de Public, Bienalle of Saint Etienne 2006

Knowledge of “being-in-the –world” is not transmitted across generations as a ready-made corpus of information, but rather undergoes continual regeneration in the context of every person’s practical engagement with his/her own surroundings. A famous anthropologist, Tim Ingold, has recently claimed that there are strong parallels between the art of being and the art/craft of weaving; in its practical execution, weaving builds up a relationship between its constituent elements which does not allow their spatio-temporal isolation and/or crystallization. Weaving is about bringing these elements together, it is about constructing a flowing sequence. Weaving is an art/craft of “continuous becoming” rather than “static being”. Largely drawing upon this premise, my project “weaving as art and as a metaphor for being” aims at demonstrating that at the onset of the 21st century, weaving and the broader fields of art and technology as ways of exploring knowledge and experience of the world, may be considered compatible at a number of levels. My work reflects my concern over issues of perception and praxis, design and construction, the generation and reproduction of form, the relation between bodily movements and lived time/space, the combination of/relation between old and new techniques, materials, morphological and stylistic traits. The fundamental aim of this project is to demonstrate that weaving is an act which combines knowing, perceiving, learning, remembering and imagining, a social activity that goes on within the context of people’s mutual involvement in a richly structured world, in short, a very eloquent metaphor for understanding and appreciating “social being” at the onset of the 21st century.

www.otempelisdrakos.com(2005)

«The lazy dragon»2005 (White Space Conflict).