18th International Architecture Exhibition Venice Biennale 2023 - Cyprus National Participation
From KHIROKITIA to MARS
Petros Lapithis, Lia Lapithi, Nikos Kouroussis, Ioanna Xiari
Cyprus Space Exploration Organization
In many ways human civilization owes its progress to plants, knowing which kind of seeds to harvest. Nature is a configuration of technology, rewriting genetic codes.
The cabin bags contain silver wheat seeds in test tubes. At the opening performance the artists share the tube with their audience. During the Khirokitian era, the wild Einkorn wheat was very hard to gather, as the ears were loosely attached to the stem and fell to the ground before they could be collected. But ...