Home is wanted. Alexandra Clod

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Home is wanted

Alexandra Clod

Collage, paper, 21x30cm, 2024 

While researching the colonial history of Cyprus, Alexandra was staying in Nicosia, the last divided capital in Europe. Meeting many people there, whose families were displaced due to the war in 1974, inspired her to draw parallels with her own experience of being an internally displaced person in Ukraine, since her homeland was occupied from 2014.

Although Cypriot and Ukrainian political and historical contexts are different, both of them resulted in the territory separation and people’s displacement. Following the story of an olive tree from Eleftheria square, Alexandra highlights the scale of displacement 

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Statistic

Internally displaced persons 

and refugees

UKRAINE

Since 2014 - 2 mln

Between 24/02/2022 - 15/02/2024 - 6,5 mln

CYPRUS During 1974 - 2000

South - 200000

North - 65000 

UNHCR 

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Alexandra Clod

Alexandra is a multidisciplinary artist, with formal training as a psychologist. The Industrial context of Donetsk city where she grew up provoked her interest in environmental changes and in how humans relate to nature. She works with the subjects of mythology (ancient rituals, sacred knowledge and symbols), global changes (shift of technologies, transition from postmodernism to new cultural paradigm etc.) and the psychological theories (such as archetypes, wholeness and trust). Inspired by the transformative power of art, in her art practice Alexandra uses ameans of photography, video and performance. She has taken part in international projects and residencies, including a RUCKA Artist Residency in Cesis, Latvia, with support of an Artist at Risk grant, performing at the Alte Muenze in Berlin, and a photography project in County Cork, Ireland. 
https://www.alexandraclod.com/ 
(Re)Grounding is a partnership between IZOLYATSIA (Ukraine), D6:EU (Cyprus) and D6: Culture in Transit (UK). 
The programme is supported by: the UK/UA Creative Partnerships programme created by the British Council in partnership with the Ukrainian Institute; European Cultural Foundation; Arts Council England; the Paul Hamlyn Foundation; the Cyprus Department of Contemporary Culture of Deputy Ministry; the Goethe-Institut Zypern; the NewBridge Project; Vsesvit, and EKATE (Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts). 

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Alexandra Clod. An old olive tree story