Obsessive Patterns Part I: «Beautiful Strange Homeland»
Sophia Hadjipapa-Gee
OPUS 39 10 - 22 November 2008

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The exhibition ‘Beautiful Strange Homeland’ , presented in OPUS 39 is the first part of a larger research under the title Obsessive Patterns and deals with the existence of delusive attitudes towards feelings, situations, and experiences that creates some kind of pattern of behaviour. The frailty of human perception and knowledge, which endures despite all training, as presented in her previous work (‘No More Tears’ and Other Delusions, Trifling Sanctuaries), is examined here not only on a personal level but through investigating whole systems of social behaviours. Into the visual domain this is translated through a constant subversion between text and image or meaning, idea, preconception and image.
“I have become increasingly interested in patterns as a way to visually express routine behaviours, unexamined preconceptions, or, what is most difficult, the disparity between the truth “taken” by the heart (at times in spite of fact), and that “taken” by reason on the basis of fact. At the core of my latest research is the examination of a particular pattern: Specific ‘visual irregularities’ that we see around us that result from social, aesthetic and gnoseological abnormalities” states the artist.
The exhibition features paintings, digital prints, videos, installations and even visual poetry.

Sophia Hadjipapa-Gee studied Painting and holds a PhD in History and Theory of Art, from the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria. She has participated in many group exhibitions in Cyprus and Europe. This is her fifth solo exhibition. She has taught at the University of Cyprus and Cyprus College, while from 2007 holds the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts of the European University Cyprus.

The opening of the Exhibition will be on the 10th of November 2008, at 19:30.