Here, This Time. A Terrible Beauty

Thu Apr 07, 2011 to
Fri Apr 22, 2011

17:00 to 21:00

Location

Apotheke
23 Kleanthis Christofides Street
Nicosia, Nicosia 1011

Description

APOTHEKE kicks off its 2011 programme with the innovative film work Here, This Time, A Terrible Beauty, by Maria Anastassiou.

Prophetically intrigued by the proliferating visual dissemination of natural disasters, the young Cypriot Deutche Bank awarded artist's work engages with the temperament and trends of the consumption of images. Understanding the moment of present meaning, of 'content', as a mere surface effect, a distorted fourth panel, removed from the event and fascinated by appearance, Maria Anastassiou's film work Here, This Time, A Terrible Beauty explores the nature of spectacle, and the spectacle of nature as an immediate relic, an archive that could imperfectly unlock our ever-changing relationship with the act of seeing.

Maria Anastassiou graduated from the Royal College of Art, having already been awarded the Deutche Bank Award for Art, in 2010. Her work has been exhibited amongst others at the British Film Institute, the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow and the Chisenhale Gallery. She currently lives and works in London.