Taxt from https://cityfriends.club/resource-2024
"The second edition RE:SOURCE 2.0 produced by City Friends Club, a non-profit charity, in collaboration with the ARTNOW curatorial team, centered around the theme of Nature. We believe that modern artists are always one step ahead and can highlight the problems of the relationship between humans and nature. RE:SOURCE 2.0 is our kind and powerful reminder to protect our planet.
Opening Day: May 17, 6 PM.
Date: 18-21 May 2024.
Time: 11 AM - 7 PM.
Location: The Warehouse by ITQuarter.
Free entrance.
The show will feature over 30 Cyprus and international artists. All the participants were carefully selected from more than 100 open-call applications. The artworks to be presented at RE:SOURCE 2.0 will include a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, installation, photography and even interactive video art using motion sensors. With ceramics, burned trees, stones, textiles, plastic bags, shells, and other materials artists will connect the visitors with the natural world.
ARTISTS
Maria Trillidou, Olga Kornilova, Luna Bekdache, Anastasia Krivenko, Kelly Norman, Tatiana Vasilyeva, Xenia Zorpidou, Elizabeth Nenarokov, Notavailable, Aleksandr Bgantsev, Daria Fetisova, Fanos Avouris, Anastasia Golovina, Anastasia Suvorova, Andreas Kalli, Zarema Khalilova, Natalia Maltseva, Anna Gorlach, Thekla Papadopoulou, Dimitris Agapiou, Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Nevin El Nadi, Art Group COLLAPSE, Konstantina Achilleos & Tuomas Venalainen, Nina Sumarac, Lubov Myasnikova, Natalia Rodkina, Lilia Li-Mi-Yan & Katherina Sadovsky.
LESSONS, WORKSHOPS AND MORE
The RE:SOURCE 2.0 exhibition is organized with an educational mission to explore the artistic vision of the nature-human bond in response to trash pollution and to promote direct actions to tackle the environmental emergency. The educational program of the exhibition will be enriched by lectures, quests for kids and adults, and a series of creative workshops, all aimed at strengthening the message of the show. The full parallel program you can find on our Instagram."
My interview for Cyprus Mail
"A need to do the project about forest stems since my childhood fascination with trees. There has always been a profound connection with them within me. I was what you might call a ‘tree-hugger-child.’ To me, they were not just plants but rather immense, wise green companions. They seemed to listen to my youthful worries and offer comfort in return, and I reciprocated as best as I could. In them, I saw myself while feeling their spirit within me. My love for them anchored me to the fundamental essence of nature’s sacred unity. At art classes, where I teach, the first lesson I give is always a drawing of the tree. People have a special bond with trees, a sentimental one. We describe ourselves with a symbolism of the tree (we have roots, we grow, we branch out, we bloomed, we are fruitful…) Every of these drawings was very intimate and personal. A kind of necessary call to our inner self as each person seems like one self/tree is growing.
After 20 years I realised I had a whole forest in my cabinet waiting to be planted. I started to organise more workshops which I called We, Trees. In collaboration with performing artists, we add various practices, together with the drawing, which inspire reflection and synthesis aiming to bridge our growing disconnect from nature, resulting in most recently from the pandemic, the virtual world and urbanisation. In a bid to convey dynamic connectivity, which neutralises bias while initiating empathy and compassion, in those workshops, participants recalled and illustrated their innermost selves while considering the anatomical attributes of trees. It is through these deep personal insights; that I have forested into a collective digital plantation This project, titled “I’ll See You in The Trees” is an attempt re-establishing this natural symbiotic connection aiming at saving trees and people simultaneously since both are under threat."
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