Embroidery Works - Identity and collective memory

My practice examines the ways in which textiles can serve as vessels of memory — both personal and collective. I approach fabric as a material that holds traces of labour, emotion, and time, capable of transforming gestures of making into acts of remembrance and repair.
I’m creating a series of works based on traditional Cypriot textile motifs — patterns
once woven or embroidered into daily life.
These motifs speak volumes about identity, tradition, religion, class, and collective memory.
By revisiting them, I explore how parts of our identity fade over time — leaving behind
only fragments of collective memory, shaped by forces we often don’t even notice.

I believe most of Cypriots — especially in my generation — live in a complicated
relationship with our identity.
We live either in a constant search for it or trapped in an illusion shaped by
incomplete histories.
My work today tries to hold space for that complexity — to question, to remember,
and to imagine different ways of belonging.