12.11.2026

10.00–11.30 am

Efi Savvides

Visual artist and educator

On “Richmond Village”, an unauthorised settlement at the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia in Cyprus.

Join Efi Savvides on a conversation on her artistic research regarding the home to refugees whose boat had washed ashore at the Akrotiri Sovereign Base in 1998.

Efi Savvides is a visual artist and art educator, and founder of Artstudio Laboratories, an art education hub active in Nicosia since 1985. Her practice explores exclusion, displacement and belonging, focusing on the lived experiences of migrants and refugees in Cyprus.

Through long-term, trust-based engagement, she works with photography, video, drawing and archival material to document everyday life in conditions of uncertainty and confinement. Her research-driven practice also examines how spaces of displacement become places of habitation, and how memory and material traces preserve the stories of communities rendered temporary and unseen.

Her recent film series, Contesting Migration, explores migration and border regimes in the Mediterranean, while her Afterlight series (2020–24) turns inward, examining memory, identity and aging through reworked family photographs.

Savvides has exhibited widely in Cyprus and internationally.

W: https://efisavvides.com/

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