The Excluded Form

Art Association Cathrine is pleased to announce the project The Excluded Form. The project provides a venue within public space where the public can intersect through a visual intervention by artist, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, installed on the facade of a building, known since the 1980s as Hotel Aquamarina, and currently under renovation before opening as Hotel Nyx. Opening day – 3rd of December 2021 - 18:00 - Molos Limassol (opposite ex Aqua Marina Hotel). The inauguration will be performed by the French Embassy in Cyprus. The project is been sponsored by the Cultural Services of Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth.

On the coastal front of “new” Lemesos, this construction site has been selected as the place and platform of an encounter between Vasmoulakis’ large-scale work, “Digger”, and passersby, the very participants of the surrounding space. The objective of the action, The Excluded Form, is to prompt conversation between the installation piece “Digger” and the general public.

*Cathrine is run by visual artists Elena Kotasvili and Alexis Vayianos. The creative team of the project includes: Eudes Ajot (Curator), Alexis Papadopoulos (Architect) and Maria Petrides (Independent writer)

This 8-storey building is known since the 1980s as Hotel Aquamarina, and is currently under renovation before opening as Hotel Nyx.

The breakneck speed with which the coastal front has undergone construction under the so-called “Cyprus Investment Programme” has in part transformed Lemesos once again and overturned its aesthetic, contributing in effect, to impacting the lives of long-term inhabitants of the area with an increase of air pollution and environmental noise.

Expansion of privatization in cities, and gentrification processes entail a radical shrinking of public space and a generating of new forms of displacement and exclusion. The construction site, here, has been selected as a temporary place and platform of an encounter between Vasmoulakis’ large-scale work and passersby, the very participants of the surrounding space. The objective of the action, The Excluded Form, is to prompt conversation between the installation piece “Digger” and the general public.

Text by Maria Petrides