Temporal Taxonomy (quoted press release)
"In the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Cyprus is represented by two
artists, Marianna Christofides and Elizabeth Hoak-Doering. Taking the Cypriot experience and historical reality as a starting point, both artists approach issues of historicity, identity and memory in a particular way, tracing and mapping data from a wider cultural history. Marianna Christofides, belonging to the young, dynamic generation of Cypriot artists, redefines an image of the world by methodically collecting and recreating, with clinical precision, fragments of photographic memory and topographical views of history, thus challenging the apparent reality. These cartographic renegotiations of alleged, or non - worlds, examine and process a new space-time grid of existence, in which utopia and reality are incorporated with the same validity. The reconstruction of coordinates and the appropriation of images from disparate and geographically remote areas, re-create a new topography of the fantastic."
Temporal Taxonomy (quoted press release)
"In the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Cyprus is represented by two
artists, Marianna Christofides and Elizabeth Hoak-Doering. Taking the Cypriot experience and historical reality as a starting point, both artists approach issues of historicity, identity and memory in a particular way, tracing and mapping data from a wider cultural history. Marianna Christofides, belonging to the young, dynamic generation of Cypriot artists, redefines an image of the world by methodically collecting and recreating, with clinical precision, fragments of photographic memory and topographical views of history, thus challenging the apparent reality. These cartographic renegotiations of alleged, or non - worlds, examine and process a new space-time grid of existence, in which utopia and reality are incorporated with the same validity. The reconstruction of coordinates and the appropriation of images from disparate and geographically remote areas, re-create a new topography of the fantastic."