"Untitled"
Made in 2014. A pair of hand-stitched shoes with two shoe boxes, 30 × 22 × 13 and 30 × 22 × 10 cm.
Provenance
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm.
More information
In 2013 Panayiotou transformed leather handbags gifted to him by important women in his life into custom-made shoes in his own size. The work was part of an emotionally charged series that explored the fine line between biography and constructed imaginaries.
At the Cyprus Pavilion during the 2015 Venice Biennale, Panayiotou followed the thread from 2013, with pairs of custom-made shoes, produced with material from fake designer handbags bought on the streets of Venice in early 2015.
In this body of work, Panayiotou has created an intertextual narrative; a fake of his work is constructed from a set of materials that are themselves aspirational fakes. The result is a mimetic work that raises questions about the contradictions inherent within the processes of production and authorship.
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