With her new exhibition Newcomers at the Minerva Hotel in Platres, Maria Loizidou invites us into a place where the conventional perception of time is replaced by a temporal cross section that allows us to journey back and forth between past and present.
Locals and foreigners alike found respite from the hot Mediterranean summers in this hotel in mountainous Limassol, while people fleeing neighboring countries at war found temporary shelter. The exhibition refers precisely to this movement: the movement in response to the need for survival and remedy in new circumstances; the movement before adversity, temporary or not; the movement in the face of loss, small or great.
The artist invites us to navigate the hotel spaces by restoring their original identity as receptacles. Through…
