The Official Parallel Event of the Larnaca Biennale 2025.

“Traces of Stass” is a tribute to the iconic and internationally recognised Cypriot artist
and educator Stass Paraskos, who was born in Anaphotia, west of Larnaca.
‘Stass Paraskos is considered the most significant Cypriot artist of his generation’ (The
Guardian 2014).
The performance serves as the official parallel event of the Larnaca Biennale 2025. It
includes a performative walk led by the artists through Stass’ childhood surroundings
and the landscapes that inspired his work. The artists, Koutsoftides and Pruciak, will
broadcast this walk live from Anaphotia and simultaneously project it in the Larnaca City
Centre, allowing the audience to experience it in real-time.
This performance reconnects the past with the present, exploring layers of home and
memory while enabling people to connect through Stass’ work. The proposing artists will
trace Stass’ steps in the village of Anaphotia, and through the broadcast, they will guide
viewers on a journey through time and space.
Viewers of the broadcast will have a unique opportunity to explore the juxtapositions of
Stass’ topography and the memories preserved on the canvases of his landscape
paintings, which will be strategically placed along the walking route by the proposing
artists. Each encounter will be accompanied by reflections on the work in situ from those
who have interacted closely with him, through a pre-recorded audio memoir played on
location and broadcast live in Larnaca. The selected individuals include childhood
friends, family members, colleagues, art professionals, educators, and researchers.
The walk concludes when Koutsoftides and Pruciak encounter a video installation on
site featuring a short video interview with Stass, played and broadcast to the audience in
Larnaca. This performance also allows Stass, both metaphorically and symbolically, to
revisit his home village, bringing him back in this gesture to the people of Anaphotia.
Through this broadcast performance, the artists create an allegorical window in a city
that connects to the windows in Stass’s memory through his paintings and to a
metaphorical window in the village of Anaphotia. All these windows intertwine through
layers of time, space, and memory, threading new discoveries with the audience’s
participation.
The village of Anaphotia thus reminisces Stass and Larnaca traces him creating a live
dialogue with the audience beyond time and space.