Lyssiotis exhibition examines memory, migration

An accumulation exploring themes of migration, individuality and governmental representation done the work of Melbourne creator Peter Lyssiotis has opened astatine Monash University Library.

‘Silence Is No Refuge: Peter Lyssiotis, Artists’ Books’, connected show astatine the Sir Louis Matheson Library, is the archetypal accumulation dedicated solely to Lyssiotis’s work, bringing together worldly from the library’s Special Collections.

Born successful Cyprus successful 1949, Lyssiotis migrated to Australia arsenic a kid and grew up successful Melbourne. His signifier spans photomontage, artist’s books, photography, poesy and film, often reflecting connected displacement and the acquisition of surviving betwixt cultures.

His work is held successful large nationalist collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The accumulation is structured crossed 4 themes — Language and Art, Imagined Homeland, Place and Protest, and Transcendence and Belonging — and has been co-curated by Anne Holloway and Kerri Klumpp.

Lyssiotis described the accumulation arsenic a reflection connected his assemblage of work implicit time.

“Looking astatine however Silence Is No Refuge travel to beingness is similar watching a version of my life-as-a-film being screened successful reverse… gathering is so different way of thinking,” helium said successful a media release.

Holloway said the accumulation invites audiences to see however representation and imaginativeness signifier responses to modern issues.

Lyssiotis’s work draws connected his Greek Cypriot inheritance and has been influenced by the poesy of Yiannis Ritsos, with recurring references to division, belonging and place.

The accumulation is escaped and unfastened to the nationalist astatine Monash University’s Clayton campus.