Larnaca Biennale 2025
“Along Lines and Traces”

Metatopies:
Geographies in Motion

The world has never existed as a fixed system; it has been shaped geologically, anthropologically, socially, politically, and historically through continuous shifts: movements of bodies, populations, meanings, territories, and boundaries. Today, the conditions that regulate the mobility of people and populations are being reconfigured, reshaping experiences of space and dwelling. At the same time, the anthropogenic climate crisis challenges established notions of sovereignty and highlights the need to reconsider our relationship to the Earth and to the question of belonging. The exhibition “Metatopies: Geographies in Motion” approaches place not as a static point on a map, but as an event, a constellation of relations, flows, and traces in constant transformation. Shifting is understood not only as the movement of populations or the reconfiguration of lines of demarcation, but as extending to regimes of mobility and immobility, infrastructures and passages, memory and trauma, as well as ecological changes that are already reshaping everyday experiences of habitation. The exhibition proposes an alternative cartography, a process of critical re-mapping, where the external geographies of space intersect with the internal geographies of the body, desire, and belonging. In this light, part of artistic research can be viewed as a contemporary experience of the situationist concepts of dérive and détournement, creating related practical methods of recording and experiencing space as a dynamic field for revising reality and shifting it into the background of a collective imagination. In a world undergoing increasingly rapid and intense change, the notion of “Metatopies” is revisited through contemporary art as a site of dialogue between different places, temporalities, and ways of inhabiting the world.

Niki Papaspirou, Art Historian, Curator
Marios Fournaris, Visual Artist, PhD in Art History
Curators Larnaca Biennale 2027