Christina Christofi - Dolls & Puzzles

Christina Christofi presents her first solo exhibition at Apocalypse Gallery entitled "Dolls & Puzzles".

"In my recent work the image is being analyzed in different shapes with flat areas of colour. Shapes that emerged from my imagination, imagination which had emerged not as a faculty of forming the actual image but as a faculty of deforming and changing the image . Observation was for me the point departure rather than the final destination.

In my paintings I wanted to isolate the figure/ face by using only flat colour to depict the background, this provided me the opportunity to create a new world , an artificial space where I can place my figures in whatever arrangement I see they fit .

My aim is to create images that unsettle our experience of the way we think things should look like. That’s why I wanted the viewer to confront a painting were the image is being dissolved in different pieces, similar of the pieces of the puzzle. I also wanted to place the viewer in a position were he might be challenged to optically unite the pieces of the puzzle, a puzzle which is sometimes simple and other times more perplexing, where the positive space turns into negative and vise versa.

I am really interested in the way that an image can transform to something totally different when the pieces are connected in a different way rather than the ordinary and I enjoy to see how the image can be seen from different perspectives so once the creation of the painting finishes then a new recreation begins." - Christina Christofi

The exhibition will be inaugurated by the honorable Minister of Education and Culture Mr. George Demosthenous on Wednesday 18th of January at 19:30.

Opening Hours
Daily: 10:30 - 13:00 & 16:30 - 20:00
Saturday: 10:30 - 14:00