Earth Will Remain, We Are the Shipwreck

Eins Gallery re-opens its doors with Alexandros Tzannis’ solo exhibition Earth Will Remain, We Are the Shipwreck. From March 3 to 17, the public will be able to explore art pieces that prompt an exploration of the geopolitics of extraction, reflect on issues of environmental decline and the various processes that modify ground, soil, earth and sea.

As art curator, Glykeria Stathopoulou writes: “Tzannis’ work investigates the complex relationships between human infrastructure, earth systems and technology. The artist is interested in how land is affected by anthropogenic processes and how the landscape is thoroughly imbricated in human histories of dispossession, displacement and exploitation across time and space.

“The exhibition echoes the role played by the maritime in the emergence of Western modernity of exploration and colonisation, hinting at how ideas of progress were reached through the forced labour of many and resource expropriation and transport. The artist weaves narratives concerning how facts, myths, memories and values create the multi-dimensional image of what we believe nature represents, without however relying on an essentialised and purist Romantic fiction that posits nature as an object, a static and fixed entity outside of the culture, but rather, as a synthesis of dynamic clusters and hybrid ecologies equipped with agency.

“Influenced by terraforming processes and patterns, Tzannis’ methodology is a kind of tracing, a transferring of specific geometries from one space into another, layered through the process of abstracting and emphasis. The cityscape and these sites, even though spatially removed, are bound to one another in the history of Greek space and rhetorically in the form of Tzannis’ work, as they are connected through networks and wider ecosystems of extraction, conveyance, and consumption.

“The works engage with the physical relationships between objects and bodies, ruin and waste, dwelling and movement, boundary and journey. Blurring boundaries between physical matter and the digital and symbolic, these sculptural hybrid objects engage with the notion and potentiality of the surface as the location of experience itself, both in terms of subjectivity and towards the outer world as yet another locus for reflection and refraction.”

Earth Will Remain, We Are the Shipwreck

Solo exhibition by Alexandros Tzannis. March 3-17. Eins Gallery, Limassol. Monday- Friday: 4pm-8pm and Saturday: 11am-4pm. Tel: 99-522977