Photos my father took on a work trip abroad, with photos I took of his father’s shop in Nicosia, 2002.

“It all came together around the kitchen table. This was the first time I lived at theirs since I was a teenager. These past few days, we were, separately, coming to the same realisation. While trying to sleep at night, under the same roof, the idea was fully forming; my relationship to trust was something she passed down, and it all trickled down to the poorest past people. It wasn’t ‘cause of my lover, it wasn't ‘cause of my father, it wasn’t ‘cause of hers either – but rather ‘cause of a fifth different thing.”

Maria Toumazou (b. 1989, Nicosia, Cyprus) is an artist living in Nicosia. Recent solo exhibitions include Fire, master, daylight at Hot Wheels Athens London (2025); Light industry at Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2025); Half Frame at Overbeck-Gesellschaft – Kunstverein Lübeck (2025). She has participated in recent group presentations at de Appel, Amsterdam (2026), the Benaki Museum, Athens, organized by the New Museum and the DESTE Foundation (2025); Parthenon 11/Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia (2025); the 15th Baltic Triennial at CAC, Vilnius (2025); Phenomenon 5, Anafi (2024); the Biennale für Freiburg 2, Freiburg (2023); the Nicosia Municipal Art Center (NiMAC), Nicosia (2019); and Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia (2018). In 2017, she took part in the Cyprus Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale as a guest within the artist collective Neoterismoi Toumazou.