Returning
by Angeliki Avgitidou
2010
A performance about loss and separation, the impossibility of going back in space and time.
A series of family photos are placed in various sites, at the old city of Nicosia. In every site I stand still while I count, in a ceremonial way, from 1 to 42 (my age at the time). At the last site on the Green line, I place a photo of my parents while I count backwards to one.
Angeliki Avgitidou studied Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts (MA, PhD). She has exhibited internationally at venues that include the ICA (London) and the French Museum of Photography and has participated at the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art and Deformes international Biennale of Performance. She is part of this year’s national representation of Greece at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. She teaches art practice and theory in Greece and Berlin/NY.
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