Landminds

A major two-fold exhibition aspiring to examine how new generations of artists from Cyprus, Greece and Britain have been inspired to interpret geometric abstractions was held at the Municipal Art Centre in Nicosia between June and July 2007.[…] Klitsa Antoniou participates in the exhibition with her own personal carpet, decorated with red triangular motifs, inscribed with the word MINE. The word has a double meaning: it means both “my own” but also is the term for a bomb, buried in the ground. Antoniou’s carpet is slightly elevated from the floor, and is illuminated from underneath. It can be read on multiple levels. With respect to its composition, one might say that the tapestry constructed according to the principles of basic design. Conceptually, the carpet, marking a place of hospitality, of encounter and cohabitation, is transformed into a personal space, which is, simultaneously, a mine field. The existential need to secure private property, the creation of personal borders and their safeguard at all costs and by all means, however explosive they might be, is clearly expressed. The repetition of the word MINE, as inscribed in the triangles, repels in a very aggressive manner the intrusion of any foreign elements in this personal territory, in what is materially, intellectually and spiritually owrs, in the self. Moreover, this intrusion invites danger or death, as in a live minefield. (Yiannis Toumazis, Supernova Constellations Catalogue, 2009)