Nasia Papavasiliou

Statement

Nasia Papavasiliou is a Cypriot multidisciplinary artist who has lived and worked in London since 2012. A graduate of Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design, she holds a Master of Arts in Performance: Design and Practice. She has created work in the UK, Cyprus, Greece, Spain and currently in Germany. Her work has been presented in theatre and gallery spaces as well as part of site-specific interventions.

Papavasiliou’s works have a poetic and imaginative sensibility translated through performance, sculptural scenography, video and installation art. She usually uses metaphoric imagery, raw and, at times, ephemeral materials that activate layers of performative actions to generate symbolic and enigmatic meanings.

Papavasiliou’s practice addresses the interrelationship of spatial, social, political and ecological narratives. She started using peripatetic research methods to trace and question the absurdity of her divided country’s significance within the global political geography. The tracing/mapping of different locations therefore became the way in which her artistic works are developed. Her new body of work is currently looking into dichotomy and dualism, the liminal space in between zones. She is fascinated by the concept of their in-between-ness (Nepantla) and existential spatiality. In a synthesis of recorded interventions and live compositions using the symbolic material of salt (in both crystal and condensed forms) the artist creates bridges of resonance across narratives and liminal spaces.

GlogauAIR Project

For this project Nasia Papavasiliou is interested in working with the local terrains, having a thorough search in the indeterminacy of occasions – from memory to logical remaking, to legitimate arbitration, from the personal to the political, to interpretive practices and metaphors of a historical peripatetic encounter, geography and spatiality the city of Berlin in relation to the division/border subject and it’s co-relations to social/ human dualities.

These encounters would be translated into a series of works. A series of poetic performative interventions, soundscapes and film work exhibited as a series of installations.

She will experiment with layering time based media (video work and projection) and live performance, sculptural scenography and re-animation.

CV Summary

Education

• 2016-2018 Master of Arts Performance Design and Practice (Distinction) Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (University of the Arts London)
• 2012-2015 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Performance Design and Practice (First Class Honours) Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (University of the Arts London)

Works

• 07/2021 Victor, Immersive Theatre Performance, curated and directed by Maria Mitsi & Nasia Papavasileiou Limassol, Cyprus
• 06/2021 Climate and Action, Huddersfield, UK
• 11/2020 Cyprus Choreography Platform, produced by Limassol Dance House – Parallel events – Short Dance Films. Limassol,Cyprus
• 08/2019 Skopelos Foundation for the Arts Scopelos, Greece
• 05/2018 Barbican Centre / Barbican Gardens, Curated by Michael Spencer London, United Kingdom
• 01/2018 ‘A minute ago’, Zabludowicz Collection Gallery, Curated by Antonia Blocker London, United Kingdom
• 05/2018 Tracing (un) familiar territory, curated composed and directed by Nasia Papavasileiou Platform Theatre

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