Meet the Team
The Excluded Form project has purpose to give to the general public a “vertical” space by appropriating, for a short term, a private building. Private sector development can be used for the benefit of the public.
The Excluded Form project aims to stand at the border between the official and the excluded by uncovering the mechanisms and the language of diverse communities that create the distinctions between the productive and unproductive, the private sector and the public space.
It is a wonderful encounter between heritage, history and artistic motion.
The scale of the artwork will create reactions, dialogue and possible questioning in the city. Inhabitants can be part of the development of Lemesos by giving another definition and maybe another paradigm of the public space. The private development sector will be able also to questioning their practices by involving the civil society into their projects of development.
The Excluded Form project wish to break the border between different group of interest and turn it into a common interest.
It is the democratisation of art on the scale of the city.
cURATOR
Eudes AJOT
Eudes Ajot studied business administration in Orléans, France and international business and international relations in Sydney, Australia.
He is a PhD candidate in corporate philanthropy at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
He has worked as a manager in various auction houses in Paris and developed expertise in Australia’s Aboriginal art, pre-Columbian, and African art.
After working within the art market, he became director of La Maison des Artistes (social security for visual artists in France) to secure the status of artists.
Eudes Ajot currently lives in Cyprus.
ELENA KOTASVILI / VISUAL ARTIsT
Elena Kotasvili is a visual artist. She studied fine art at Middlesex University, London. She is now based in Cyprus. Her interests span the spectrum of the performing arts and performance art, and are located within the spaces of theatre and stage design, crossing into installation art. She has participated in art exhibitions and festivals, nationally and internationally. In 2013 along with visual artist, Alexis Vayianos, she co-founded CATHRINE, an art organisation that encourages cross-discipline art projects and collaborations.
ALEXIS VAYIANOS / VISUAL ARTIST
Alexis Vayianos is a visual artist. In 2002, he studied music, specializing in piano, at the Frankfurt Conservatory in Germany. He then studied Fine Art at the School of Fine Arts in Athens from, graduating in 2009 with an honors degree. His practice intersects between painting, stage design, installation art and performing arts. He has had solo and group shows in Cyprus, Lebanon, Athens, and London. In 2019 along with visual artist, Elena Kotasvili, he co-founded CATHRINE, an art organisation that encourages cross-discipline art projects and collaborations.
ANDREAS ANTONIOU / ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Andreas Antoniou is an artistic curator and costume designer. He lives and works in Cyprus. He studied graphic design and visual communication at the Instituto Europeo di Design, Italy and fashion design and costume design at Accademia Koefia, Italy. He has worked as a fashion designer and fashion illustrator at the haute couture house Giovanni Torlonia Cuture, Rome and as a stylist and fashion editor for magazines. He has also worked as an art curator, set designer, costume designer and production designer for short and feature films, television commercials, publications and photography.
LOUCAS IONANNOU / VISUAL ARTIST
Loucas Ioannou studied Fine Arts in London and Berlin and currently resides and works in Limassol. He has participated in art exhibitions and festivals in Cyprus and in Europe. His primary artistic interest lies in the relationship between visual and dramatic narrative. Loucas incorporates dramatic monologue into his work, using imagery, sound, and action to create compelling pieces. Additionally, in collaboration with Marianna Pafite, he co-founded a cultural organization called “Neofytos,” which focuses on disability art. Together, they created the first Documentary Theatre production about disability titled “Dystopia: Il Paradiso.” Loucas also directed the second part, “Dystopia: Inferno.” He has curated art exhibitions and festivals in Cyprus as well.
ELENA AGATHOKLEOUS / CO-FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF CENTER OF PERFORMING ARTS MITOS
Elena Agathokleous was born in Lemesos. She is a performer, director, a maker in the field of performance art, co-founder and director of Center of Performing Arts MITOS, based in Vinegar Factory (Xydadiko). She designs, curates programs and productions, developing multidisciplinary and inter-artistic collaborations in Cyprus and abroad, creating space for other voices and narratives. Her work focuses on contemporary recepion and performativity on identity, legacy, mortality and gender issues. Searching for connection with community and place, she transforms the personal experience to political comment. Characteristics of her work are the post-dramatic practices, the use of digital tools, the experimentation with form and medium, the development of methodology, the direction as dramaturgy, re-inventing dynamics with audience. In the same concept, she continues her research on ancient Greek tragedy, developing a series of performances with contemporary approaches. She is a mother of two boys.
OTHER COLLABORATORS
Alexis Papadopoulos / ARchitect
Maria Kyriakou / Theater Director
Antonis Stylianou / Architect
Maria Petrides / Writer