Description: In his 5th solo exhibition, PASHIAS proposed for the first time at Centre of Contemporary Art Diatopos, an ensemble of sculptures, videos and photographic artworks, after 10 years of remarkable collaborations and presentations abroad. Achieving recognition through the art of performance and its establishment as ‘live creation’, PASHIAS transfers his public through the exhibition "Carry me home" to a place and time where each body’s presence still carries value, significance and weight. Beginning with Greek mythology and moving into the practice of architecture, the artist explores bodies as structural elements for a building or providers of support for a construction. The act of equating bodies with pillars serves in creating an environment, where the relationship of a person and a social ensemble to which he/she belongs to, takes form in reference to the common ground they occupy and the common values they ‘carry’. The exhibition brings a dialogue of such cultural relations to the context of Cypriot reality, in order to observe its sociopolitical dynamics. PASHIAS’ artworks take place in two-dimensions through paper and fabric, take on a three-dimensional form through marble, wood and plastic, and end up in moving image through video. The multiplicity of artistic proposal "Carry me home" presents itself as the transformation of mythological figures, architectural models and touristic depictions, in order to create contemporary ‘souvenirs’ or the memories of transferring and safekeeping bodies and values.

Carry me home

Solo exhibition curated by Daphne Nikita, Demetris Venizelos + Melina Philippou / Centre of Contemporary Art Diatopos / Nicosia - Cyprus / December - 2019

Curatorial text: Demetris Venizelos, Melina Philippou

Photo: "Aeras" by PASHIAS,  Emma-Louise Charalambous