Travelling to almost any destination requires passage through the space of an airport. For business or for pleasure, for a short visit or permanent stay, one departs from one airport only to arrive at another.

With this concept in mind, six artists from three Mediterranean countries of the European Union have created interactive installation works of art for Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus. The artists are Vince Briffa and Liliana Fleri Soler (from Malta), Theodoulos Gregoriou and Klitsa Antoniou (from Cyprus), and Dimitris Alithinos and Eleni Panouklia (from Greece).

The art exhibition of interactive artworks under the title ‘From Arrival to Departure’ is being organised by Laiki Bank Cultural Centre in collaboration with Hermes Airports.

Being held to mark the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union and within the framework of the cultural events organised for this period, the exhibition will remain on display until the end of the Cyprus Presidency in December.

Vince Briffa says: “Similar to an airport departure lounge, the Merry-go-Round is a place of transition and conversion; its ride being momentary or transient and through its rotation on a fixed axis, it simultaneously imitates time creating a symbolic connection in the journey and the experience between people and places.”

‘I will get there somehow…’ is the title of the art installation by Liliana Fleri Soler. She draws imagery from both the human form and experience. This is an interactive sculpture about journeys – getting from place to place in one’s physical body, in one’s mind or simply in one’s spirit.