Four artists from the University of Art in Krakow, Poland, open an exhibition at Lumiere Art Gallery in Limassol tomorrow, Friday 3 April at 18:00, drawing on Cyprus’s millennia-long history of copper extraction as the starting point for an installation that explores matter, landscape and cultural memory.
The exhibition, titled “The sky over your head will be iron and the ground beneath you copper,” brings together work by Anna Krukowska, Alicja Panasiewicz, Tomasz Dobiszewski and Adama Panasiewicz. It runs until 9 April.
Working with copper powder, metal sheets, copper compounds, metal leaf, paper, photography and video, the four artists treat material transformation — oxidation, corrosion, crystallisation — as both a physical and an epistemological process. Copper serves as the exhibition’s central reference point, a metal bound to Cyprus’s geological history and long associated with the island’s cultural and technological identity.
The installation also examines how knowledge about the world is produced and legitimised. Cypriot mythology is juxtaposed with both authentic and fabricated photographs of recognisable places, unsettling the assumed authority of visual documentation. Cartographic outlines of the island, drawn from maps of different historical periods, further explore how representations of territory are shaped by the frameworks and technologies that produce them.
Further information is available at www.lumiereartgallery.com.
