Ethnolatria and Traumatolatria: Art, Gender, Cyprus and the Re(li)gion

Η εκδήλωση «Ethnolatria and Traumatolatria: Art, Gender, Cyprus and the Re(li)gion» πραγματοποιείται Τρί 17 Νοε 2026, 18:00.

Η εκδήλωση «Ethnolatria and Traumatolatria: Art, Gender, Cyprus and the Re(li)gion» πραγματοποιείται στον χώρο Kartzin x Visual Voices, Λευκωσία.

Τη διοργάνωση της εκδήλωσης «Ethnolatria and Traumatolatria: Art, Gender, Cyprus and the Re(li)gion» έχει Visual Voices.

The speakers are visual artist Natis and psychoanalyst Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou. Natis is a conceptual painter working between Berlin and Nicosia whose work examines collective and individual psychological landscapes. Dr. Saketopoulou is a Cypriot and Greek psychoanalyst based in New York, teaching at NYU's postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and holding the Avenali Chair in the Humanities at UC Berkeley for 2025-2026.

The discussion will examine the relationship between art, power, identity, gender, collective consciousness and trauma. Key topics include ethnocentrism, internalized gender control, the aestheticization of trauma, how artistic creation connects to power, when identity becomes a mechanism of restriction, and how trauma acquires artistic value through aestheticization. The discussion will also explore how social and cultural categories shape human subjectivity, and how collective identification can transform into ethnocentrism.