Marianna Christofides @ Waterside Contemporary

Working primarily in installation, film and text, Marianna Christofides studies the multiplicity of images that form consensus and collective memories, treating each as an imaginary document. Her collection of moments, objects, places and physical experiences – sometimes brought into gallery spaces wholesale, sometimes represented in poetic imagery – creates an illusion of traveling through a familiar yet fictitious world. Events can unravel at geological speeds, and whole lifetimes appear in singular objects.
‘Perennial Limbo’ consists of over 400 sheets of cardboard cut out by Christofides and her father are held together by two screw clamps to form a female head. Written on the sheets in the artist’s hand is a dense covering of notes originally written by her father. The artist transferred these diary entries to the sheets after his death.