Maria Loizidou Cartographies, 2014 Silk paper 44 x 40 x 28 cm Courtesy Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki. Text: The work of Maria Loizidou - who in 2014 had a solo show at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia and was short listed for the Curate Award of the Fondazione Prada and the Qatar Museums Authority with the project “Directly Mild” - addresses issues of concern to humans in their everyday lives and isolates moments of the "other", our other self, and of relationships in general that describe and maintain the strength of fragility. Her ethereal sculptures are made of traditional materials such as Japanese paper and a special glue that the artist makes from apples. These works are in the form of “mechanical puppets”, a cross between an ancient Greek idol and a child’s doll. Most of the sculptures depict women occupied in daily tasks but in such a way that action is replaced by “immobile mobility”, in other words, with “static drama”.
