Untitled
Untitled (2015) is an installation consisting of eight pairs of shoes in the artist’s size that have been cut from different shades and types of leather. Produced and exhibited on the occasion of the exhibition Two Days after Forever at the Cyprus Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale, this wardrobe of shoes is endowed with sentimentality. Perched on immaculate pedestals whose placement has been skilfully choreographed by the artist, these shoes have never set foot on the ground. They have no other function than to compose and reinvent the bond between the artist and the women in his family. The artist asked the women for one of their handbags, and then entrusted them to a craftsman who shaped them to his feet. A gift from one generation to the next, passing from hand to foot, from woman to man, this work illustrates the artist’s search for the right way to write history, to enhance its heritage and memorial qualities.
Exhibitions
Fondation Luma, ()
from 04 Mar to 31 May 2024
Camden Arts Centre, Camden (Londres)
from 27 Sep 2019 to 05 Jan 2020
Biennale de Venise, Venise (Italie)
from 09 May to 22 Nov 2015
Christodoulos Panayiotou pratique son art en anthropologue : au sein de son œuvre multiforme, il manie les méthodes de la recherche comme les codes de la chorégraphie. Il examine la façon dont les identités culturelles et nationales se sont construites au contact des mythes collectifs, embrassant ainsi des thématiques historiographiques et sociologiques. C’est souvent en partant de son pays natal, Chypre, que se déploie sa pensée sur notre société contemporaine, sur son rapport au passé et à l’histoire.
Né en 1978 à Limassol (Chypre), Christodoulos Panayiotou a été formé aux arts du spectacle (mention Danse) à l’université Lumière-Lyon 2 et à l’université du Surrey à Roehampton-Londres (Royaume-Uni). En 2015, il a été choisi pour représenter Chypre à la 56e Biennale de Venise. Il vit et travaille entre Limassol et Paris.
