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Cyprus Pavilion - Biennale Arte 2026
It rests to the bones
Marina Xenofontos
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Biennale Arte 2026

Marina Xenofontos
It rests to the bones

Tuesday—Sunday
Summer Hours (May—September): 11am—7pm
Autumn Hours (October—November): 10am—6pm

Associazione Culturale Spiazzi
Calle del Pestrin, 3865
30122 Venice

Commissioner: Dr. Ioanna Hadjicosti
Artist: Marina Xenofontos
Collaborating Artist: Panagiotis Mina
Curator: Kyle Dancewicz

Coordinator: Dr. Stella Sophocleous
Production Manager: Sara Maggioni
Site Coordinator: Giovanni Giacomo Paolin
Research, Archive, and Development: Paola Shiamtani
Design and Production Assistance: Alexia Rontionova
Graphic Design: Julie Peeters
Design Assistance: Laura Martens
Design and Fabrication: Manos Vordonarakis, François Junod, Ezer Longinus, Mauro Pasqualin
Translation: Francesco Tenaglia, Ioli Kavakou, Aliki Theodosiou, Yağış Bey, Seta Astreou Karides, Giannis Moutsis, Aycan Garip

The participation of the Republic of Cyprus in Biennale Arte 2026 is organized and supported by the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture – the Republic of Cyprus.

“It rests to the bones” is supported by PSI Foundation, Patrick Collins, Kerenidis Pepe, A. Andreades Family, Cherry Cheng, Helena Czernecka and Igor Czernecki, James Freedman and Anna Kissin, Angie and Yanni Koulakoglou, Natalia Kurakina and Georg Zett, Amalia Mytilineou, Pylon Art & Culture, and Anastasia Sgoumpopoulou.

@labiennale taken in Cyprus Pavilion - la Biennale di Venezia by @cyprusinvenice

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Images from May 2026 — Collaborator Panagiotis Mina (@therealpannybrown / @pyrgatory.studios) performing a live version of the audio work ‘You presented the most beautiful. And the most beautiful is the wound on your chest’ during the first days of La Biennale di Venezia. Marina Xenofontos’ (@afictionalastronaut) exhibition ‘It rests to the bones’ remains on view through Nov 22, 2026. Photos: Georgios Kazanakis (@myarch_ive) taken in Cyprus Pavilion - la Biennale di Venezia by @cyprusinvenice

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Marina Xenofontos, ‘It rests to the bones,’ Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2026, installation views. Photos: Jacopo La Forgia © Marina Xenofontos. Courtesy the artist

‘Interior of a Nightclub,’ 2026. Suspended ceiling in fir and other reclaimed wood battens, mahogany veneer. Dimensions variable

‘Evacuation Plan,’ 2026. MDF, LEDs, Arduino board, motion sensor. 20 × 15 × 2 cm taken in Cyprus Pavilion - la Biennale di Venezia by @cyprusinvenice

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Marina Xenofontos, ‘Passer,’ 2026. ‘It rests to the bones,’ Cyprus Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2026. Messing, steel, cartonnage, papier-mâché, motor reductor, gears. 15 × 10 × 8 cm. Photo: Jacopo La Forgia © Marina Xenofontos. Courtesy the artist taken in Cyprus Pavilion - la Biennale di Venezia by @cyprusinvenice

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Marina Xenofontos, ‘Threads,’ 2026, detail. Copper, steel, motors, electrical board. 21 elements; each 61 x 44 x 48 cm. Photo: Jacopo La Forgia © Marina Xenofontos. Courtesy the artist

@labiennale taken in Cyprus Pavilion - la Biennale di Venezia by @cyprusinvenice

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Cyprus Pavilion Inauguration today, 4–7pm. Music by Panagiotis Mina (@therealpannybrown) / listen across the canal at 7pm.

Image: Marina Xenofontos, ‘Threads,’ 2026, detail. Copper, steel, motors, electrical board. 21 elements; each 61 x 44 x 48 cm. Photo: Jacopo La Forgia taken in Cyprus Pavilion - la Biennale di Venezia by @cyprusinvenice

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Friday, 10 April 2026 on Radio Alhara (@radioalhara) at 9am Bethlehem Time. Link in bio.

“You presented the most beautiful. And the most beautiful is the wound on your chest.” A mix of influences, research and raw material.

A new audio work by Panagiotis Mina (@therealpannybrown) of Pyrgatory Studios (@pyrgatory.studios) in collaboration with Marina Xenofontos (@afictionalastronaut) for “It rests to the bones,” upcoming at the Cyprus Pavilion — 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Transcriptions and translations from folk song variants sung by the Ayisilaou sisters — Amalia Strati, Rebecca Hadjipapa, Anthulla Fylachtou, Chrystalla Pittaka — in Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot dialects.

Recorded in Koilani, Cyprus, 2020

To be presented live in Venice on Thursday, 7 May 2026, 7pm at the Cyprus Pavilion.

It rests to the bones
Marina Xenofontos

Curated by Kyle Dancewicz (@kdancew) by @cyprusinvenice

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✨ Cyprus Pavilion – Venice Biennale 2026✨  
It rests to the bones, Marina Xenofontos curated by Kyle Dancewicz.

For the Cyprus Pavilion of the 61st Biennale di Venezia, Marina Xenofontos will exhibit works in sculpture, sound, and film that register cadences of social life, religious transgression, and cultural endurance.

Over the last fifteen years, Xenofontos has made artworks that store and retrieve information. Her works across media are entries into and products of what the artist has called an “unconditional archive,” or
an accumulation of interrelated ideas, fragments of political memory, physical objects, and social conditions that undergird the present.

Xenofontos’ new and re-presented works grow from a study of anti-spectacular machines, motors, and automata, and from an idiosyncratic sense for data and metadata – the collected debris of experience that clings to life. As heavy as its recursions could potentially feel, Xenofontos’ work instead generates an ineffable, sometimes shimmering, escape from the baggage of lived or almost-lived history, followed by its inevitable transfiguration and return.

📅 May 6–8: Preview 📅 May 9 – Nov 22: Public opening 📍 Associazione Culturale Spiazzi, Venice taken in Cyprus Pavilion - la Biennale di Venezia by @cyprusinvenice

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🪨 Room 3: Placing

In the third space a circular drystone structure has been assembled to create a form of communality that fulfills one of architecture’s basic roles: to create relationships where none existed before. Through this process created by artisans Argyris Panayiotou and Panayiotis Panayiotou in real time within the pavilion with Cortemilia sandstone, the collective effort of making the structure was revealed. Surrounding the exhibition is the fragmented ambient soundscape of artist Elena Savvidou who creates a sense of suspended timelessness by weaving digital compositions with field recordings. The spatiality of the monolithic structure is enhanced and transformed into its surfaces by the lighting hues of Demetris Shammas who has composed shifting subtle rhythms of warm to cool hues of the sun’s natural cycle.

Sound artist: Elena Savvidou @elektroniki
Light design: Demetris Shammas
Mural drawings: Aaron Gatt

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📷 @d_loutsios taken in Spiazzi Venezia by @cyprusinvenice

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🪨 Room 2: Sorting

The second space reflects on how hand and eye coordination begin to differentiate the randomness of different stones, organising them into an act of sorting into eight different sizes and typologies before they are assembled into a structure. Sorted stones are broken down into modular typologies which display craft singularly into a sophistication of solids but also voids, which then becomes identified, once it can be ‘read’ in the assembled structures.

An installation by @fisherwomxn incorporates three short films co-directed with Andreas Anastasiades, with shots by Keti Papadema and sound support by Alexandra Astreou-Karides, which are ‘suspended’ between the stones. Narratives based on semi-fictional scripts blend storytelling and artistic research through montage, beyond descriptive material functionality. The film installation also reveals real-time dynamic processes of gathering, sorting and assembly which are concealed or even dismissed within the monumentality of completed drystone structures. Intricacies of the process are shared by craftsmen and women of Salamiou in Cyprus, a terraced community still practicing the intangible heritage of drystone.

Stools made from wild Ferula Communis (Anathrika in Greek-Cypriot, Gavcar in Turkish-Cypriot) crafted by Angelos Papatheocharous and @tradition_now , are provided for visitors. A decorated Birdnest, modeled by @birdlifecyprus and made by high school children highlights the more-than-human environment that drystone landscape generates.

Mural drawings by Aaron Gatt.

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@10m3stones
@cyprus.architects.association

#CyprusPavilion
#CulturalDiplomacy
#LaBiennalediVenezia
#BiennaleArchitettura2025
#Venice

📷 @d_loutsios taken in Spiazzi Venezia by @cyprusinvenice

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🪨 Room 1: Gathering

The first space recalls natural accumulations formed during the gathering of stones, assembled collectively while fields are cleared for cultivation. Stones introduce themselves and their materiality discretely as they become recognised through typologies that find their place, gradually becoming apparent in sequences that follow. Drystone farming landscapes carry value beyond their technical functionality. They are imbued with poetry where the geological, the natural world and human imagination converge (Emmerick, 2016).
The stones placed in the window have been assembled to recall a curse, or an anathematisma. This borrows from traditional rural practices of both spatial and moral historic statements against injustice. Blocking a space with stones, or creating a monumental pile expresses a form of communal cursing or banishment, demonstrating visually against collective injustice inflicted upon a community. This form of drystone assemblage was a way of monumentalising people’s resistance through the lasting materiality of piled stones.

@depminculturecy

@10m3stones
@cyprus.architects.association

Postcards by @printedgeographies
Mural drawings: Aaron Gatt

#CyprusPavilion
#CulturalDiplomacy
#LaBiennalediVenezia
#BiennaleArchitettura2025
#Venice

📷 @d_loutsios taken in Spiazzi Venezia by @cyprusinvenice

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