Name: ANIMA by Michalis Charalambous
Start: 2022-06-23T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-06-23T21:00:00+01:00
Location: The Cyprus High Commission

ANIMA by Michalis Charalambous

Cyprus High Commission - Cultural Section

ANIMA: the first VR/AR installation at the Cyprus House, 
in collaboration with the British Museum, the Cyprus Museum and CYENS.

The Cyprus High Commission

ANIMA: Latin for ‘soul’Michalis Charalambous focuses on the radical transformation of the meanings of the concept of the "human" in the late 20th and early 21 st c., through the term’s theoretical, material and/or virtual reconfigurations within the contemporary techno-scientific context. In this innovative on-site VR, AR and physical installation at the Cyprus House, Charalambous explores the transcendence of entrenched perceptions of the limits of the human condition and the transformations observed in the meanings of “human nature”, following an opposite route: through in depth research in ancient Cypriot representations of the “post-human”, conducted at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia and the British Museum in London.

Michalis Charalambous (b. 1987) is a visual artist, based in Nicosia, Cyprus. Charalambous’s practice includes ceramic sculpture, digital media and painting. He explores the boundaries between space, body, object, and identity, using digital technology and traditional media. He examines the contradictory terms of analogue and digital, physical, and virtual environment. His work aims to interpret a non-specific context defined by symbolism. Charalambous has exhibited worldwide including the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture (Cyprus Pavilion, 2018), the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2017, “Imagined Homes”), the special screening program at 58th Thessaloniki International film Festival, and the PAFOS 2017 group exhibition “Weaving Europe”. Residencies include Youth Maker Space (Larnaka, 2021), Phytorio (Nicosia, 2020), BJCEM, “LandXcape” (Lecce/ Puglia), Can Serrat (Barcelona) and SNEHTA residency (Greece, 2018).

ANIMABy Michalis Charalambous23-30 June 2022 | Mon – Fri 10:00 – 16:00Book a visit via email: info@culturalchc.co.ukOrganised by the Cyprus High Commission – Cultural Section, in collaboration with the Cyprus Department of Antiquities, The British Museum and the CYENS, Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence, Cyprus.

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