In the same place

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Katerina Attalidou's project 'In the Same Place' at the Cyprus Museum could be experienced as a gentle gesture, the result of lived experiences and long journeys of discovery. The Cyprus Museum, which since 1908 stands on what was until recently Museum Avenue (renamed to Mikis Theodorakis Avenue), houses and exhibits Cypriot antiquities from countless places on the island, removed from archaeological layers that date to over eleven thousand years before the present day. Beyond being a mere edifice, the Cyprus Museum is foremost a place with fascinating depth; a place to which Attalidou feels an emotional attachment, where countless place-specific experiences are reflected and all sorts of identities and stories can be told. Attalidou's watercolours, each with a unique journey behind it, invite us to appreciate the aura of place: the archaeological, ecological, historical, personal, and romantic place.

As Katerina Attalidou notes: «As i travelled back and forth throughout the island, i experienced once again that Cyprus is indivisible. Recent memories or people's personal stories confirmed this knowledge, which is evident in the Cyprus Museum, as well as in the actual geography of the island.

Walking the island and listening to its deepest voice, which can only be heard when we remain quiet so that only the sounds of nature remain, when we rest our body on the ground and keep our eyes open to its breathtaking beauty, i realised that there is no other heaven than the land in which we are rooted and where we spend each day in a shaft of sunlight».