Christodoulos Panayiotou

Untitled, 2017
Icon, 28 x 25 cm

Untitled, 2017
Icons (3), 28 x 25 cm

Untitled, 2017
Icons (3), 28 x 25 cm

Dying on Stage, 2017
Performance/lecture

Christodoulos Panayiotou focuses on the identification and uncovering of hidden narratives in the visual records of history and time. In the performance-lecture Dying on Stage (7 July 2017, old school), the artist used archival material, video, dance, to explore the notion of death on stage, both real and allegorical, to question historical and discursive formations. Three new icons, produced in the traditional hagiography way, remained floating, at the point when the golden coating is applied but before the apparition of the Virgin. The text from the work Letter from Limassol that the artist wrote to the Cypriot authorities demanding the naming of a street in Limassol after an archaeologist whose extensive work in Cyprus has been forgotten by the state, was glued in the bus stop at the port of Anafi.