Carey’s Room
ANBAU atelier (Alexandros Christophinis
and Maria Lianou), Marina Kassianidou, Maria Petrides, Andreas Antoniou, Marios Pavlou
18.10—20.10.2024
Within the framework of Limassol Art WalksPresented
at MAKIka, Stasinou 45 - 53, 3032 Limassol
In Carey’s Room, multiple forms of shifting occur, all fluid and ever-changing. These acts are (in)tangible, slipping through the boundaries of the room and entering Carey’s consciousness, playing tricks on his perception. Sometimes things are large, other times small; sometimes they are stretched, and at other moments, they are curtailed—all happening simultaneously.
Carey, whose first name is Scott, is the protagonist of the film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), where he begins to shrink after encountering a mysterious fog. As he grapples with his changing size, Carey symbolically leaves his room to artists who, like him, engage in playful manipulations of perception exploring the relationship between human existence and space, reflecting on how we influence and are influenced by our surroundings.
These artists experiment with shifting perspectives in ways that challenge the boundaries of reality. They use the mediums of architecture, painting, language, sound, collage. Their translations of space and scale are sometimes delightful, other times off-kilter, always unexpected, creating a continuous game of perception.
The room itself becomes a space for reimagining reality, as both Carey and the artists who follow inhabit it in different ways, each questioning the stability of form and size. In this shared space, the acts of shifting unfold not just in scale, but also in the very nature of perception itself, where every change, whether subtle or dramatic, contributes to a broader game of awareness and interpretation. Throughout the duration of these shifts, artist Marios Pavlou is hosted in MAKIka continuing the space’s function as a space as a temporary rental.
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unexpected physical, ontological, spiritual transformation due to the change of a situation/everyday life/body = re-exploration of space(body, home, relationship with self and/or other)
sudden, unwanted /physical/ transformationthe dynamics of change, regression but also a metaphorical rebirth the course of a ritual
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the invention of solitude
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opportunities for coexistence
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