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)


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



Between you me and the wall (2011)


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

 

Art Athina – Roots to Routes (2010)

 

www.otempelisdrakos.com(2009)

  • «The return of lazy dragon» 2009 CD COVER

Presence in absence (2009)

  1. 2009 Solo Exhibition at the center of contemporary arts “Diatopos” in Nicosia
  2. 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.
  3. 2009, her work “Presence in Absence” received the first prize
  4. 2009 PAD International Award in Italy, for the “Mediterranean Between Present and Future” Competition. The work was presented at the International Design contest.
  5. 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).

Project 2 Half 2 (2005)

  • Leaps of Faith. International Exhibition and Multi-Disciplinary arts project. Cyprus, May 2005.

Flying Carpet (2005)

Court House Limassol Competition (2005)

  • 2nd Prize

Shop – Melixenia Video Installation (2004)

Bag

  • “Unclaimed Luggage” at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain. Sala Antonios Palacios. Duration of exhibition 03/02/2005 to 27/02/2005

The Garden