Entrapped in art

By Maria Gregoriou

Starting on Friday the Loukia and Michael Zampelas Art Museum in Nicosia will showcase the group exhibition Engagement AND Entrapment, a contemporary art exhibition investigating enticement, allurement and attention.

According to the exhibitors, engagement is a way of capturing attention, a way of alluring and a way of enticing to possess ownership. We could implement this as a way of attracting an audience, being drawn into a system and in turn be captivated.

Such methods can include smoke screens, masquerade and stings. We can be engaged in political upheaval and in contrast engaged to be married.

Either way if one shows the willingness to engage then they are seized, arrested and caught, through an innocent human desire to absorb and be engrossed.

With that being said, Cypriot and international artists were invited to submit work which explores a subversive engagement, using tactics and trickery to captivate and which contests rules and laws of a system.

Whether you as the audience will view the outcome, engage with it and be ultimately entrapped in the work, remains to be seen.

Engagement and Entrapment
A visual arts exhibition exploring enticement, allurement and attention. Opens July 24 at 8pm until August 8. Loukia & Michael Zampelas Art Museum. 27 Arch. Makarios III Ave, 1020 Kaimakli, Nicosia. Monday to Friday: 8am-2pm. Tel: 22-456099 or 22-456093. Email: [email protected]

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