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Two British Cypriot artists, whose roots have taken them in two very different directions.
Enver Gürsev has spent a lifetime navigating duality — a British person in Cyprus, a Cypriot in Britain, belonging to both and to neither. Employing imagery of abandoned places, liminal spaces, borderlands and their peripheries, he explores his memories of navigating this duality since childhood. Neither here nor there. Belonging to both.
Kika Pierides grew up learning from her grandmother — a widowed refugee who rebuilt her life through art after war and displacement. That legacy became a guiding light. Her practice, Contemporary Patternism, takes a shape and walks with an emotion, using intuition to form unexpected patterns as a form of transformative healing. Rooted in a Cypriot inheritance of resilience, the work carries a universal resonance: an invitation to move through our own processes of release, acceptance, and transformation.
Together, at Theatro Technis — founded in 1957 in the heart of London's Cypriot community, with the guiding principle of from life to art, back to life — their roads cross. Not as resolution, but as recognition.
Cast and Creative Team
USEFUL INFORMATION
Estimated running time
The exhibition runs 9–26 July. Doors open one hour before each performance and
close at 11pm- check show times to plan your visit.
Performance times
Ticket prices
Free
Concession
Full-time students, those aged under 16, senior citizens, the unwaged, members of Equity and BECTU
Access
Theatro Technis is fully wheelchair accessible. Guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome in the auditorium. There is a Loop system fitted in the main auditorium. If you have any questions or specific requests, please email boxoffice@theatrotechnis.com.