Fragments & Throughlines is an exhibition of paintings, artifacts and pigments exploring time and material meaning in the Cypriot landscape. The use of ochre and umber from Cyprus dates back to antiquity, and the earth pigments remain readily available on the market and highly revered by artists today. Throughout the radical changes across eras and empires, the earth and stones beneath our feet persist, record and remember all that has taken place.
The paintings in this exhibition portray landscape formation, artwork creation, and building construction as processes interconnected through their materiality. The display of artwork and materials side by side evokes the narratives embedded in the land and their transmutation into art and artifact.
Elisabeth Heying is an artist, material researcher and educator. Her paintings explore place, landscape and surface as records of and containers for human experience. Born in Minnesota, Heying received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2022, and her BFA in 2015. She received a 2023-2024 Fulbright Award to conduct her project titled “Throughlines in the Cypriot Landscape: Pigments and the Essence of Place,” and is creating an archive of Cypriot earth pigments and a body of paintings exploring the story embedded in the landscape in Nicosia, Cyprus.
This event is sponsored by Museum Lab at CYENS Centre of Excellence and the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI). The opening reception for Fragments & Throughlines will take place at CYENS – Thinker Maker Space at CYENS Centre of Excellence on Friday, May 17th from 6 to 8:30pm. The exhibition will be on view from May 17-31, Monday through Friday from 9 to 4pm.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 739578
This project has received funding from the Government of the Republic of Cyprus through the Directorate General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development