At least three spaces coincide, the space around you, the space of collage and all that is visible to you in them, the space inside you. The page unfolds itself (en)gendering tale and text, perennial presence and play, pulsating plurality. There is no beginning here, in the physical space or the collaged space or inward space. Page embodied, never untouched. An infinite turning of relation, undivided in its attentive nest.
This other physical space, another page, is never untouched. A pace to pass sinuously through the bare skin of tale and text, image and imagery, self and surface. An undying diffusion of attentive visuality.
And how many readings, you may ask.
For those of us who are trying to establish a plural, we cannot stop this plural at the gates of reading: the reading must also be plural, that is, without order of entrance: the “first” version of a reading must be able to be its last, as though the text were reconstituted in order to achieve its artifice of continuity, the signifier then being provided with an additional feature: shifting. S/Z
Exercise Book
Marina Kassianidou
Published by P. S. Artist Led Projects, Nicosia, Cyprus
First published as part of the exhibition page intentionally left blank, October 13 to November 3, 2018, Thkio Ppalies Artist-led Project Space, Nicosia, Cyprus
Text by Maria Petrides
Photography of works by Vassos Stylianou
Printed by Theopress Ltd, Nicosia, Cyprus
ISBN 978-9925-7501-0-8
Copyright © 2018 Marina Kassianidou
Text copyright © 2018 Maria Petrides
All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced, copied or transmitted in any form except with written permission from the publisher or creators.
Thkio Ppalies Artist-led Project Space
2B Kissamou Street
Palouriotissa Nicosia 1040
Cyprus www.thkioppalies.org
Supported by
With special thanks to the Ragdale Foundation, Illinois, USA, the Stonehouse Residency for Contemporary Art, California, USA, the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts, Virginia, USA, the Hambidge Centre for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Georgia, USA, the Centre for Drawing, London, UK, Can Serrat International Art Residency, Barcelona, Spain, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, USA.