ekso

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06/11/2024

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended our listening session, making it such a resonant experience. We are grateful to the participants and contributors to this moving piece by the amazing Yorgos Petrou and Stelios Ilchuk, including vocal performers Yara Menas, Florenza Deniz Incirli, Leo Farley-Stamadiades, Omar Suleyman, and Victor Esses.
We are grateful and proud to have been able to share this experience with all of you.

Many thanks to the Deputy Ministry of Culture, the Department of Antiquities, and onsite staff, Pambos and Kyriakos, for their support.

Special thanks to and Brown ❤

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Accessibility:
First Image: Audience members sit scattered across the stone steps of the Paphos Roman Odeon at night in an intimate setting. The dark sky contrasts with the stone seats, creating a focused atmosphere for the listening session.

Second Image: A spotlight shines in the Roman Odeon, with audience seating faintly visible in the background.

Third Image: Yorgos and Stelios stand under the spotlights in the Odeon, facing and talking to a dimly lit audience.

Fourth Image: A distant view of the empty, spotlighted stage in the darkened Odeon, surrounded by the audience.

23/10/2024

(Have you ever thought of your digestive system in relation to your view from any place on this island?)

Join us this Sunday, October 27th, for an exhibition opening at Ekso 3-6pm, and a listening session at the Paphos Roman Odeon at 7pm.

‘As firmly cemented clam-shells fall apart in autumn, so I must take to the road again’, is an installation of new work that sets the stage for the listening session that will follow, and an integral part of Yorgos Petrou’s residency at Ekso, developed in parallel to the sound piece 'My house is burned but I continue to scatter my blossoms as if nothing happened'.

The exhibition's title, borrowed from Matsuo Bashō, encapsulates the idea of being "clammed up" and its connection to aspects of the q***r experience. The selection of works play with the idea of "mirroring by slicing, splitting, or opening up," which resonates with Petrou's exploration of how individuals connect to specific places and how these become sites of memory, legend, and trauma.

Their experimental approach to materials and fragmented symbolism is evident in the selection of works. Using highly specialized soft silicone to create human tissue-like structures entangled with industrial materials and everyday objects, Petrou seeks to distort forms and formats, explore materiality as hierarchy, and tell stories within the context of q***r bodies in rural environments and colonized territories.

The exhibition will be open on Monday, October 28th, 10am - 6pm
Duration: 27 October - 17 November / Open by appointment until November 17th, at [email protected]

16/10/2024

On October 27th at 7 pm, we invite you to a listening session at the Roman Odeon in the archaeological site of Nea Paphos.

‘My house is burned but I continue to scatter my blossoms as if nothing happened’ is a collaborative piece by Yorgos Petrou and Stelios Ilchuk that bears a layered significance. The place where Petrou hangs out as a teenager, at a time when the site was a barrier-free public space, now calling for a listening session, at once reclaims a presence through voice, and demonstrates Petrou’s politically nuanced and multi-layered approach to heritage, colonialism and memory. Ilchuk’s music affords an expanded take on reclamation and revision through beats and textures, elaborating noise and silence, that travel freely between bodies and dimensions.

The work follows the month-long residency of Petrou at Ekso, where they embark on spatial mapping, foraging sounds, images and materials from Cyprus. They visit their childhood home, tend the crops of their ancestors, enter the ruins of the room where they were born, and roam the rural and urban landscape in the Paphos district.

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The session is co-funded by the Deputy Ministry of Culture of Cyprus

09/10/2024

Really excited to announce that Ekso will be hosting a series of events by Yorgos Petrou (they/them), a London-based visual artist from Pafos whose work spans sculpture, performance, photography, film, and writing. Opening on October 27th, the project explores the relationship between body and land, challenging cultural and political hierarchies through nuanced, multi-layered interventions. Mark your calendars, exact locations in Pafos and times will be shared soon ✨

© All images are copyright of Yorgos Petrou

www.yorgospetrou.com

The series of events are co-funded by the Deputy Ministry of Culture of Cyprus

Accessibility:
First Image: A light butterfly with dark spots floats on murky water with small debris and a nearby leaf.
Second Image: A close-up of a hand gently pinching a slightly red earlobe, with a blurred background.

15/07/2024

big thanks to jimmy, cactus, , and everyone who attended our relaunch party! ✨

08/07/2024

ekso has a new space! join us this saturday, july 13th, for a soft relaunch party at 4 agiou kendea, marisso court, shop 2.

DJ sets by jimmy & cactus. STARTS AT 7:00PM

our new space is a communal one, facilitating both ekso and Decade (run by the newly founded ) ✨

we can’t wait to see you there! (*we will have a few drinks but feel free to byob).

accessibility note: there is currently no ramp access, but one will be installed soon. saturday’s event will be held outdoors so everyone is welcome to join. the restroom is not wheelchair accessible.

11/07/2023

You are all invited to join us on a chill get-together, as we prepare to move to a new space not far from our current location. We want to celebrate the space that hosted ekso for its first 3 years, eat, drink and dance together. C u there ✨

01/06/2023

Be My Ally’ by Rachel Garfield and Andrea Karayan's exhibition is open by appointment until Sunday 4 June.

To arrange a visit, DM, email [email protected] or call 99548326.

Photo: Panny Brown

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29/05/2023

‘Be My Ally’ by Rachel Garfield and Andrea Karayan's exhibition is open Wednesday to Sunday by appointment, until 4 June.

To arrange a visit, DM, email [email protected] or call 99548326.

Photos: Panny Brown

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Photo 1: Close up photo preview of the exhibition featuring 4 prints by Rachel Garfield (two photo prints and two text based prints with excerpts from "Be My Ally" film's transcript)
Photo 2: One of the guests flicking through and photographing a book publication by Andrea Karayan