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Sunlight Vandalism

Marina Xenofontos

Part of a larger project of video portraits engaging with themes of ideology, displacement, and the everyday, Sunlight Vandalism(2019) presents a portrait of Ayshe, a Kurdish cleaner and seamstress who was granted asylum in Cyprus, where she has lived and worked for the past twelve years. Ayshe’s character unfolds through subtle, often overlooked details—her gestures, the tone of her voice, and the rhythm of conversation—foregrounding the intimacy of presence over explicit narrative. Her surrounding environment is deliberately abstracted; the only tangible reference to place emerges through images of a home she purchased in her homeland. These photographs, viewed on her mobile phone, evoke a persistent orientation toward return, positioning the house as both a real and imagined site. At the same time, their presentation introduces a quiet choreography of sharing, where memory, longing, and mediated image converge.
Country: Cyprus
Time: 13
Year: 2018