For the next performance of Nicosia International Festival audiences will move to the recently renovated Eleftheria Square, on May 27 to experience the live performance Ω3 by internationally renowned artist Pashias.
This innovative work exhibits the artist’s body divided in half, in the form of a mythical and ‘foreign’ creature that does not belong to and does not fit in with the social ensemble. Embodying the idiom ‘fish out of water’, the artist interacts with Zaha Hadid’s organic architecture, maps out his own public route towards his natural element and invites audience members to follow in an open dialogue centred on diversity.
With more than ten years of intensive practice, Cypriot visual artist Pashias has established his name as synonymous with performance art. His body has been exhibited live, through video and photography or in the form of sculpture, countless times, each time in a different shape, image and idea. Bearing the relationship between an individual and their social environment as his thematic axis, Pashias always explores inventively and effectively the way humans communicate and coexist in a common space and time.
His works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions, as well as international festivals in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Bulgaria, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil and Canada.
Ω3
Live performance by visual artist PASHIAS. May 27. Eleftherias Square, Nicosia. 5pm. Free. Tel: 22-797979. www.nicosia.org.cy