Refugee

Refuge 2014

construction woods, strips of clothes & ropes

15×7,5×4,5m

Larnaka Municipal Gallery, Larnaca, Cyprus
(cur.: Tonia Loizou)

The idea of home is an important part of the artistic exploration of Andreas Savva. The house-shelter, the cocoon, the nest is assembled by wood and clothes so that it becomes a place of contemplation; a need of the soul which leads to deliberate isolation and retreat, given the conditions and the multiple problems which man is faced with.
One could translate it as a need for introspection or even mutation. The artist uses objects to replace human presence, which in its absence, is even more evident through the eyes of the spectator.
Dr Tonia Loizou, Art Historian