30/09/2025
✨ 𝗖𝘆𝗽𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 – 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲✨ �
𝘐𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴, Marina Xenofontos curated by Kyle Dancewicz
Τμήμα Σύγχρονου Πολιτισμού Κύπρου/ Department of Contemporary Culture CY
For the Cyprus Pavilion of the 61st Biennale di Venezia, Xenofontos will exhibit works in sculpture, sound, and film that register cadences of social life, religious transgression, and cultural endurance.
Over the last fifteen years, Xenofontos has made artworks that store and retrieve information. Her works across media are entries into and products of what the artist has called an “unconditional archive,” or
an accumulation of interrelated ideas, fragments of political memory, physical objects, and social conditions that undergird the present.
Xenofontos’ new and re-presented works grow from a study of anti-spectacular machines, motors, and automata, and from an idiosyncratic sense for data and metadata – the collected debris of experience that clings to life. As heavy as its recursions could potentially feel, Xenofontos’ work instead generates an ineffable, sometimes shimmering, escape from the baggage of lived or almost-lived history, followed by its inevitable transfiguration and return.
📅 May 6–8: Preview�📅 May 9 – Nov 22: Public opening�📍 Associazione Culturale Spiazzi, Venice
