Please join us for our exhibition’s Repetitive Acts closing event, Sunday, 25 May 2025 at 18:00
Performance directed by Nefeli Kentoni
fsssssssssssss BOOOMMMM!!!!!!
A writer is someone who plays with the body of his mother. [Roland Barthes]
I am a writer; I must play with the body of my mother. [Maggie Nelson]
Maria Papacharalambous and Nefeli Kentoni – mother and daughter – thread a multi-layered story about all that is willingly and unwillingly passed down from generation to generation. Are wounds and trauma part of our dowry?
The multimedia performance uncovers the diverse manifestations of motherhood – from the bond between parent and child, to the relationship between artist and artwork, and finally, to the ties binding citizen and motherland.
Old wounds carried through umbilical cords; current wounds carried through language, objects, geography… Until the stage becomes a mother[land] full of landmines, ready to explode:
fsssssssssssss BOOOMMMM!!!!!!
The damage cannot always be undone, the scar remains, but the attempt to heal is nevertheless made over and over again.
Director/Writer: Nefeli Kentoni
Soft Sculptures: Maria Papacharalambous
Performers: Zoe Georgallis, Maria Masonou, Nefeli Kentoni
Music Composition: Manos Stratis
Live Musician: Will Scott
Created within the framework of the On Bodies Festival 2024, organized by Dance House Lefkosia and supported by Athos Demetriou Associates LLC.