Exhibit8 gallery in Limassol organizes the solo underwater photography exhibition of Fanos Avouris, titled “Beneath the Horizon: From Akamas to Apostolos Andreas”. The documentation of the Cypriot underwater landscape allows Avouris to revise the boundaries between space and time via the act and sense of travelling. The exhibition presents a contemporary expedition in locations such as Akamas, Kyrenia and Famagusta.  The same places become a point of departure for a journey through time that invites the visitors to wander through the memories and the personal mythology of Avouris about the Cypriot seascape.

The opening event will be held by Aristos Aristeidou, owner and editor-in-chief of the Cyprus Yachting& The Cyprus Fishing magazines and organizer of the Limassol Boat Show, on Friday, July 28 at 19.30, while the exhibition will last till the 26^th of August.

An unexplored place, yet imperatively present in human life, the sea is a territory of common symbolisms and a liquid monument on which personal and collective history emerge as entangled. Starting from a short retrospection on the evolution of the practice and equipment of free diving, the exhibition presents photographs of impressive underwater landmarks of the Cypriot coastline. The images of the seabed captured by Fanos Avouris conversate with the visitors in an emotionally charged context that conveys loss, nostalgia and the questions left behind by the invasion of 1974. Colours and aquatic shapes merge with the traces created by the long human activity on the sea as well as with the delight of exploring an endless underwater cosmos.  

At the exhibition “Beneath the Horizon: From Akamas to Apostolos Andreas”, the experience of freediving and photography as an art medium transform into navigation tools before innermost questions.

How can we appropriate the endless? How do we preserve in our memory something under constant motion and change? How do we capture a fluid element?

Fanos Avouris was born in Limassol in 1991 and comes from Κaravas village of the occupied Kyrenia province and from Zakynthos. He is freediving from a young age and during 2015 and 2022 he was part of the team that organized the world championship of free diving under the auspices of AIDA INTERNATIONAL. He works with underwater photography since 2014 and he has been awarded in photography competitions by the Cyprus Youth Board. He has participated in group exhibitions in Nicosia, Larnaka and Limassol while he is a permanent exhibitor at the Limassol Boat Show. During the last few years, his photographic work has been devoted to the exploration of the areas that his grandfather used to dive till 1974.

Sponsors of the openingevent are Erimoudes Winery and their representatives in Cyprus, Oenoposis Wines Distributors.

Curator: Eleanna Avouri

Art Direction: Sonia Photiou

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Duration:  28 July– 26 August 2023

Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10:00 – 23:00/ Saturday: 12.00 – 23:00

Private viewings are available upon request

Exhibit8 Gallery: Hatziloizi Mihailidi 21, Katholiki, 3041, Limassol, Cyprus

Information: www.exhibit8.com.cy, Instagram: exhibit8gallery, facebook: @exhibit8art, tel: +357 25 21 21 71