Socratis Socratous
Fluid Persistence

The exhibition Fluid Persistence, opening on the 12 December 2025 at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation [NiMAC], begins from two key reference points: a 1943 statement by John Burns in the Daily Mail describing the Thames river as “liquid history”, and journalist Erica Gies’ book, Water Always Wins (2021), which urges us to consider the desires of water itself. Water, a vital yet unpredictable force, nourishes ecosystems, shapes landscapes, and flows through human and non-human bodies, while resisting control in an era of rapid development and climate instability. So, the question “What does water want?” becomes critical.

Fluid Persistence brings together nineteen contemporary artists whose work responds, directly or indirectly, to the above ideas. More specifically, their work explores urgent questions relating to ecological destruction, water’s role in storytelling and mythmaking, its defining power in geopolitics, its dark and haunting nature, as well as its magical and transformative potential ingrained in the simple truth that we are all bodies of water.

Artists: Socratis Socratous, Elena Adamou, Alev Adil, Ioannis Aristotelous, Charalambos Artemis, Marianna Christofides, Kyriaki Costa, Pavlos Ioannides, Stelios Kallinikou, Nurtane Karagil, Marina Kassianidou, Nicolas Lambouris, Maria Loizidou, Eleni Mouzourou, PASHIAS, Alexandros Pissourios, Mikella Psara, Constantinos Taliotis, Damianos Zisimou

Curated by: Dr. Elena Stylianou