📍 Gardens of the Future, Nicosia
📅 Opening: Saturday, 25 April 2026 | 17:00–22:00
👥Guided Tour with the artists: Sunday, 26 April 2026 | 11:00–13:00
📆 On view until 28 May 2026 (Thursdays by appointment — contact: virginia@d6.eu)
🎟 Free entry

What does it mean to truly listen to the land?

Following their MATCH residency in Nicosia, artists Christina Zampoulaki and Caterina Miralles will present their work at the Gardens of the Future. For this final exhibition, and through their collaboration, they create a space for dialogue around climate, care, and our relationship with the environments we inhabit while proposing experiential practices,  sharing knowledge on climate change. 

Two intertwining bodies of work that approach land and water as living systems fragile, adaptive, and always in excess of the boundaries we draw around them. Caterina’s Margins of Definition move between scales asking what persists at the edges of maps, borders, and systems of control. Christina’s research follows water through the garden as a network of collection, retention, and redistribution, capturing its logic in a cyanotype zine made with sunlight, where leaves leave direct imprints of their own survival strategies. Together, their practices refuse extraction and fixed outcomes proposing instead attentiveness, care, and a deep sensitivity to the environments that sustain us.

Rooted in fieldwork across two contrasting sites, the community ecosystem of the Gardens of the Future and the terrain surrounding the Skouriotissa Copper Mine, the exhibition brings together mapping, water systems, plant relations, and material experimentation. Here, land is not treated as a resource, but as a living system: one that holds memory, absorbs history, and invites new ways of understanding.

Through installations, moving image, and site-responsive structures, the artists explore how water flows, how borders are drawn, and how environments are shaped both visibly and invisibly. Their work opens up questions about how we inhabit space, how we share it, and how we might care for it differently.

The created water-collection and filtration structure will remain in the garden as part of the exhibition, a gesture that will continue to support the site beyond the duration of the show.