Year produced: 2019
Approximate dimensions: 14 x 84 (diameter x height)
Materials: cast concrete, bronze, stone, steel, rusted steel
Design & Manufacture: Constantinos Economides – Marios Charalambous
Concept Creation: Marios Charalambous – Constantinos Economides – Yianna Tsolaki
Context and Curation: Yianna Tsolaki
Photo credits: Silvio Rusmigo
Berengaria de Navarre, virtuous but plain, subjected BUT defiant”.
Berengaria de Navarre – “the Humble Queen of England” as she signed herself, never set foot in the country she was crowned Queen of nor spoke the language, the marks of her crown still impressed on her skull..
An oddity how her legacy has affected concept, myth, history and architecture from her brief passing through Cyprus 800 years ago, where she wed her Kind, Richard the Lionheart after he conquered the island in an accidental anomaly in 1191.
A historic event, a legendary hotel and a camp rich in aroma of summer and spring buds.
As if one’s fate is pre-defined justly by the echelons of their royal abandonment, chaotic whirl of marriages and unfamiliar conquered lands. An unquestionable privilege or a force of nature or law of pretentious dwellings freewill discarded.
Berengaria appeared at her wedding in a simple, unassuming gown “…probably to insure that nothing could deflect from the Centerpiece (Richard).
Richard in bejeweled flowing robes rode to church on a magnificent Spanish charger, richly caparisoned with precious metals and tooled saddlebag.”
Historian Mairin Mitchell
“We have subjected… all its strong parts (the island’s).”
6th August 1191 – King Richard I to his justiciary in England
A blend of melancholy and intense emotion stand before beauty, flourishing or withering, articulates a life we portray as worth living.
A bruised, scarred, torme nted or tortured mind spoils and lives in an impaired fairytale.
