Nature Unbound: Between Remedy and Poison

Organizer: Cyprus Presidency - Council of the European Union, Deputy Ministry of Culture
Admission Status: Free Entry 

Visual Arts

Exhibition

The group exhibition of contemporary art Nature Unbound: Between Remedy and Poison (Ályti Phýsi: Fármako kai Farmáki) is presented in Armenia as part of the Cultural Programme of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026, in collaboration with the Embassy of Cyprus in Armenia. The exhibition explores nature as a political, cultural, and symbolic field shaped by history, power, and collective memory. At its conceptual core lies the notion of pharmakon, as examined by Jacques Derrida in Plato’s Pharmacy, where pharmakon signifies both remedy and poison simultaneously. Through this duality, nature emerges as a site of care and destruction, healing and exploitation, refuge and entanglement. Natural elements—landscape, plants, and natural phenomena—function as carriers of memory, trauma, and transformation. Through works of installation, video, photography, and drawing, the participating artists investigate the intersections of environment, identity, and politics, offering a reflection on coexistence in an era of ecological and geopolitical uncertainty raising critical questions concerning responsibility, care, and the forms of resistance that emerge through the relationship between humans and nature in the contemporary world. 

The event is carried out within the framework of the Programme “Events at Embassies of the Republic of Cyprus abroad”, in the context in the context of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU 2026.