None of your beeswax – MAKERsHOUSE 2022
The MAKERsHOUSE hosting program of the Youth Makerspace Larnaka, returned for the 4th consecutive year, aiming to empower the creative community, support artistic production, and promote research and innovation, offering its space, equipment, and services.
For 2022, the Youth Makerspace Larnaka presents the exhibition “None of your beeswax” by resident Elina Hatzinikola on Saturday, November 26 at 19:00. The artist presents us with various innovative methods of creating works of art in collaboration with nature’s amazing architects, the bees. In this process, Elina Hatzinikola applies her knowledge as an amateur beekeeper and utilizes bees as artistic collaborators.
“Thousands of bees are needed to create each sculpture, which both live inside and shape it throughout the process. I, as a designer, provide the shape of the sculpture I desire as a wooden structure coated with honeycomb wax. I expect the bees to build on this honeycomb their three-dimensional shapes. The result is up to the bees. It remains only to imagine the shape since no one can completely control nature and the turn the bees’ work can take.”
Based on this narrative, the artist creates a visual installation through which she wishes to highlight the result of the partnership between bees and humans, drawing attention to their very important existence in our environment.
OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION: 26/11 – 19:00
EXHIBITION DURATION: 28/11 – 2/12
VISIT HOURS: 8:00 – 17:00