EVGENIA VASILOUDE

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My process, a magical and unhurried inner journey, stretches the limits of imagination to recreate safe havens, fostering a new life and nature-preserving economy. My practice contends that care, akin to unveiling beauty in nature, is a political act and a form of social resistance.

In the well-chosen words of Donna Haraway in my foreword to Ursula Le Guin's book, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, “to salvage the unheroic stories that have yet to be heard. For a language that makes possible the reimagining and re-enchantment of the world around us”.

Eugenia Vasiloude is a versatile artist and engraver, holding a master's degree in Fine Arts from the Kyiv State School of Fine Arts.

Since 1992, Vasiloude has showcased her art in eight solo exhibitions across Cyprus, alongside participation in biennales and printmaking exhibitions both locally and internationally. Notably, her piece "Hymn to Demeter" earned her the second prize at the 9th Cairo International Biennale in 2003.

Initially focusing on the female form, with references to mythology and the fertility goddess, her work delved into themes revolving around nature, femininity, environmental concerns, ecology, and the delicacy of life. Her current artistic practice centers around gender therapeutic methodologies.

Vasiloude's creations are housed in prominent collections such as the State Collection of Contemporary Cypriot Art, as well as in various banks and private collectors' possessions. From 1989 until 2021, she was also an art teacher in Secondary Education. She is a co-founder of the Cyprus Printmakers Association, with which she actively collaborates in organizing workshops, exhibitions, and other events.

embroidered textual scapes, delves into the themes of the Mediterranean Sea and the art of embroidery.

This visual concept is a seamless extension of  the “textual nets” series, inspired by winning the first prize in the recent gift competition of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Cyprus. 

Exploring an art form once marginalized within the hierarchical confines of patriarchal dominance in Handicrafts, Vasiloude unveils the unspoken female discourse within. Her artistic practice, merging printmaking techniques with a prayer-like symbolic process, crafts an experience both manual and spiritual.

Through deliberate touch and the ritualistic act of printing, “thinking” hands create an art “scape” that becomes a conduit for the value of community. The artwork weaves tales—old and new—exploring ideas of kinship and symbiosis, not just among humans but also among non-human entities. These sacks and bundles expand the boundaries of thought, fostering environments of co-creation and inclusion, encapsulating collectiveness, memory, and ecology.