A collective that is limited not one bit by boundaries between disciplines, formats, genres, or tired notions of art professionalism, and focuses instead on the ever-broadening of fantastic creativity,not a crusade, not a conquering, but a playful rendering irrelevant of limitations and boundaries, and a delightfully expansive inclusion of design perspectives.
Collectively they exhibited in a Hamburg gallery from 2014 - 2016 with three Cyprus inspired series, the “DOTing” series (hangers/lamps), “Peep” series (furniture/wall lamps/ container boxes), “Green Line” series (side table/wall lamp/bowl).
In 2017, a product designed by Constantinos with literary context by Yianna for their “DOTing”series, was nominated for the German Design Award in the Excellent Product Design category.
An anomalous nature dispute of a yellow Morris Minor in the buffer zone and its heritage context “1 border, 2 rusty bumpers, 3759mm yellow bridge”, a contribution for the Humanities Department of The University of Cyprus, in 2018 for their conference on “Borders and Bridges in world Literature and Art”.
The “Worship Container”, a proposal of the team for the Larnaka Biennale in 2018 was credited with a Finalists Award. In 2019 their “Scattered Domes”, work for the Almyra and Anassa Hotels in Paphos, is part myth / part design skepticism of 101 churches of the Akamas Peninsula.
In the “Berenagaria Project (on Subjection & Defiance)”, where a total of thirty four creatives of various disciplines have been involved in working around the concept of Berengaria of Navarre, the Berengaria Hotel in Prodromos and the Berengaria Camp in Polemidia all seemed linked to similar fates. These exhibits have been displayed in various locations islandwide in public spaces, museums, gallery spaces and coffee shops throughout the summer of 2019, provoking critical thinking and ultimately, resonating with the public, and through the display for the exhibition at the Limassol Municipal Arts Centre - Apothikes Papadakis.
ΦΧΨ’s most recent work is “Arch & Pillar is She” reflecting on feminine crafts and gendered realities of the industrial labour force of the German ARCHIV Massiv Museum within the Spinnerei in Leipzig. A cross cultural narrative of the architectural identities of the place, and the cultural heritage of Cyprus internationally, where they collaborated with Hamburg based Cypriot artist Penny Monoyiou and the Cyprus Handicraft Centre. This work by ΦΧΨ remains within the permanent collection of theMuseum.
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