Christos Michaelides
In my birthplace, where the landscape conjures feelings of loss, pain and confusion, geography plays a vital role in the formation of collective memory. People use the landscape as a tangible manifestation of this collective memory, whether through the creation of monuments or by having the landscape serve as a symbolic stronghold preserving their memory of the past. These visual narratives not only reflect the past but also establish an intimate connection with contemporary issues and imagery. Α spatially liminal condition creates a framework through which I can consider my home country, this shared/divided island, as a hybrid geopolitical landscape driven by affect and politics, a fluid condition which I choose to touch upon by creating loosely-inspired visual links.
 
solo exhibitions
Christos Michaelides was born in 1983 in London. He graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2010. In 2008, he received an Erasmus scholarship and attended a semester at the Slade School of Fine Arts. In 2023, he completed the MA Painting program at the Royal College of Arts.
His most recent solo and group exhibitions include the group exhibition Someone Else’s Nostalgia at Crux Gallery in Athens (2021), the solo exhibition A Safe Place for Mistranslations at Alpha CK Gallery in Nicosia (2022), the duo exhibition A State of Trauma at DContemporary Gallery in London (2023), and the group exhibition There is an Island at the Embassy of Cyprus in London (2024).