The practice of Greek Cypriot visual artist PASHIAS is grounded in the field of performance art, installation and photography. By establishing the artist’s body as primary material for creation, PASHIAS sets up a ‘situation’ or environment, in which an audience is invited to initiate a process of action and re-action. Based on the relationship of a unit towards an ensemble, in a similar manner to how an individual is ‘received’ or ‘perceived’ within a social setting, the artist’s body is dismantled into a set of pieces, physical parts, habits or ideas, and then physically and conceptually reshaped by the ‘stance’ of audience members. Through the artist's on-going research into social constructs (body + gender), cultural consumption (body + food), competitive spectacles (body + sports) and historical artefacts (body + exhibit), PASHIAS ultimately sets out to investigate alternative modes of presence, communication and co-existence. At these meeting points, the body in action inevitably becomes a political body, aware and responsible for its ‘time’ and ‘place’. PASHIAS has graduated from Goldsmiths University (BA) and Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (MA) in London, whilst presenting solo exhibitions in Cyprus and Greece, and participating in group exhibitions and international festivals in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Bulgaria, Turkey, Belgium, Canada and Brazil. In 2013, PASHIAS co-founded epitelesis - Performance Art Foundation as an international platform for the support of cultural activities, has been engaged in curating exhibitions and series of events on the relationship of live action to other artistic practices, and has been working as an educator/lecturer through various academic programs.
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10.06.26, 19:00 - DIVA / Public forum at the Lecture Theatre - Old Anatomy Museum / Organised by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities + Social Sciences, Dr. Giorgos Papantoniou + Prof. Christine E. Morris / Dublin - IE. - Link
09.06.26, 13:00 - DIVA / Public performance featuring Aggelika Gana at the Campanile (Front Square) - Trinity College Dublin / Organised by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities + Social Sciences, Dr. Giorgos Papantoniou + Prof. Christine E. Morris / Dublin - IE. - Link
14-17.05.26 - Vima Art Fair / Fair participation with Centre of Contemporary Art Diatopos at the Warehouse - IT Quarter / Curated by Daphne Nikita / Organised by Edgar Gadzhiev, Lara Kotreleva + Nadezhda Zinovskaya / Limassol - CY. - Link
11.05.26, 17:00-20:00 - Artistic Practices in Museums + Archives: Post-Colonial Retellings + Reframings / Conference speaker at the Cyprus Museum / Monitored by Ellada Evangelou + Despo Pasia / Organised by the project "Performing Collections Performing Archives" + the Department of Antiquities Cyprus / Nicosia - CY.