Engaging with autobiographical encounters, the publication examines the effect of fiction in negotiating lived and embodied experience. It unfolds as a series of rehearsals that considers how narrative constructs can open up shared spaces of observation and meaning. Through the practice of autoethnography, Still develops an intimate vocabulary that interweaves text, drawing, and photography to reflect on the interrelation between memory, self-representation and collective identity. 

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The launch will commence with simultaneous readings of the three texts included in the book. Diego Armando Aparicio, Loukia Pieridou and Damien Touche will narrate the essays on loop from 19:00 to 20:00, in the square behind Sic. Contemporary Culture. The audience is invited to join at any moment, and follow the choreography of the readings, which will be delivered in English.

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At 20:00, Leontios Toumpouris will be in discussion with Evagoras Vanezis to elaborate on the development and making of the publication. The conversation will touch upon writing, memory and stories not as fixed records of what has been, but shifting constructions shaped by desire, intuition, and place. The conversation will be held in Greek, and it will be followed by a Q&A.

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Τhe book will be available for purchase during the event.

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About the book: 

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Still by Leontios Toumpouris

2025, hardcover, 27 x 17 cm, 80 pages, full colour

Edition of 450 from which 50 include a limited edition photograph

 

Artist’s Biographical Note: ​

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Leontios Toumpouris is an artist and educator based in Nicosia. His work unfolds in bodies and series that span sculpture, site-responsive installations, text, moving image, drawing, and performative gestures. In his recent work, he focuses on how the experience of being with the landscape shapes our perception of the physical world and the relationships within it, whether familial, found, noticed, felt, or imagined.