Haris Epaminonda
28.04.06 – 03.06.06
Domo Baal presents Haris Epaminonda's first solo show.
" … Somehow I am attempting to make a picture out of all these fragments in order to indicate some greater whole and yet I think that knowledge might be found in the in–between of the spaces, or in the elsewhere of the reiterative process. Perhaps I am connecting knowing with the texture of thought and sense. Your work assembles itself in ways that indicate passages from one level to another, always in search of the next register, overflowing and then stilling like water wishing to indicate depth. Sometimes the elements feel like traces of memory, at other moments, vestiges or fragments that have lost their place in a chain of encounter. One moment you appear as a teller of strange children's stories, and then equally this might switch to dark gothic tales. There appears little by way of boundary definition but rather a restless pursuit of that which appears to fall outside. Anyway the subject is simply what it does, but the ground of the subject is also paradoxically an abyss, which opens out a gap or space of impossibility within the heart of representation. So we both have to cling to the idea that this has been our space of encounter, or at worst, a painful scattering across the field we call our passage. And then another day.… "
Jonathan Miles, London April 2006
Extract above from 'Gesture between Worlds, The Art of Haris Epaminonda' written for this exhibition, published by domobaal editions (ISBN 0954459091).
Haris Epaminonda graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003 and lives and works in Nicosia and London. Her Video 'Nemesis 52' has been shown at the Portobello Film Festival (2003), 21st World Wide Video Festival Amsterdam (2004), in The Year of France in China, Bizart, Shanghai, and at Peripheral Visions, Cork Ireland, (2005) as well as in 13+ at domobaal (2005). She first exhibited in 'Paradisiaco' at domobaal with Neal Rock and Rebecca Stevenson in 2004.
Epaminonda has been selected for East International, Norwich 2006 and also has been awarded a residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (April 2008). Her work is in the Deutsche Bank Collection, London.
- Rebecca Geldard on Haris Epaminonda
- An extract from the essay written for 'Oyster Grit' at domobaal in September 2007. (1 page)
- Future Greats: Brian Dillon on Haris Epaminonda
- Haris Epaminonda, selected for 'Future Greats' annual feature in Art Review, March 2008. (1 page)
- Haris Epaminonda
- An essay by Mykola Xanthe Krynsky, London, 2007. (5 pages)
- Sutures
- An essay by Brian Dillon written about Haris Epaminonda's work in 'Old Earth No More Lies I've Seen You …' exhibiton catalogue for Cyprus at the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007, published by The Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Cyprus. ISBN 9781874044659 (3 pages)
- Gesture between Worlds: The Art of Haris Epaminonda
- An extended essay by Jonathan Miles, written for Haris Epaminonda's first solo exhibition, domobaal London 2006. ISBN 0954459091 domobaal editions (27 pages)
- Frieze
- Dominic Eichler, profile of Haris Epaminonda, issue 111, November/December 2007. (includes a video–link)
- Review – 32 Jahre Künstlerhaus Bethanien
- 'Mesmerised' by Valeria Schulte–Fiscehdick on Haris Epaminonda (pps 196–197) published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2007. ISBN 3932754883 (1 page)
- The Risk of Art
- An essay by Denise Robinson, written for 'Old Earth No More Lies I've Seen You …' exhibition catalogue for Cyprus at the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007, published by The Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Cyprus. ISBN 9781874044659 (4 pages)
- Shadows
- Transmission: The Rules of Engagement 11, contribution by Haris Epaminonda, published by Artwords Press. ISBN 9781906441029 (1 page)
- Mining the Seam
- Rebecca Geldard pieces together the origins, settings and implications of Haris Epaminonda's video Nemesis 52 2007. Miser & Now, Issue 11, 2007. (2 pages)
- Present Future/Artissima 14, solo project: Haris Epaminonda
- domobaal booth, selected by Cecilia Alemani, November 2007. (1 page)
