Biennale Arte 2024
Exhibition Overview
Vigil Workspace
1. Statement in solidarity for Palestine & reading of Palestine Hologram
2. The nexus of border violence and surveillance technologies across the Cyprus maritime borderscape
3. Bring your forgotten memories and a stone
4. Curse Reverse
5. MYRRHA
6. Last Wave: A Listening Vigil
Publication
Vigil Workspace
1. Statement in solidarity for Palestine & reading of Palestine Hologram
2. The nexus of border violence and surveillance technologies across the Cyprus maritime borderscape
3. Bring your forgotten memories and a stone
4. Curse Reverse
5. MYRRHA
6. Last Wave: A Listening Vigil
Publication
Miriam Gatt
The clouds moved across the sky quickly and the sun was pale. “It’s going to rain”,
said my grandma before leaving the room in a hurry. If she didn’t know how to
read the skies, it would be like this: it would rain, the clothes would get drenched,
then they would dry, then it would rain again and it would be very long before she
could fold them and place them back in the wardrobe. My grandma is intimate
with the future in ways that I now crave. It’s been more than a year of genocide
against the Palestinian people and everything I do feels like gathering clothes in
the rain. Shouldn’t we have seen the signs earlier? Shouldn’t we have known the earth is always calling for revolution?
For the month of July 2024, artist and writer Miriam Gatt was invited by Endrosia Collective on behalf of the team of the Cyprus Pavilion to take over the Vigil Workspace. During her stay, she reflected on the potential of spiritual practices to transform and move us politically. What kind of rituals and prayers could bring forth the fall of this rotting empire? How can the experience of the spectral shape a practice of radical imagination, beyond what we have already seen? Guided by these questions, Miriam wrote a prayer book titled ‘Re-membering’ which she presented in April 2025 with Endrosia in Kaimakli, Nicosia. The prayer book reflects on memory as resistance against the colonial divisions of time and includes instructions for exercises aiming to reassemble what has been dis-membered, erased and lost.
For the month of July 2024, artist and writer Miriam Gatt was invited by Endrosia Collective on behalf of the team of the Cyprus Pavilion to take over the Vigil Workspace. During her stay, she reflected on the potential of spiritual practices to transform and move us politically. What kind of rituals and prayers could bring forth the fall of this rotting empire? How can the experience of the spectral shape a practice of radical imagination, beyond what we have already seen? Guided by these questions, Miriam wrote a prayer book titled ‘Re-membering’ which she presented in April 2025 with Endrosia in Kaimakli, Nicosia. The prayer book reflects on memory as resistance against the colonial divisions of time and includes instructions for exercises aiming to reassemble what has been dis-membered, erased and lost.