Christodoulos Panayiotou’s new work Days and Ages, produced by Moderna Museet, consists of a 320-square-metre ceramic floor for the exhibition with the same title. “Days and Ages” is the most extensive presentation of Christodoulos Panayiotou’s oeuvre in Scandinavia to date.

The exhibition title, “Days and Ages”, paraphrases the archeologist Einar Gjerstad’s Ages and Days in Cyprus (1933), a memoir of the Swedish Expedition, which conducted wide-ranging excavations on the island between 1927 and 1931.

Under an agreement between the Swedish government and the British colonial administration, half of the unearthed terracotta objects were shipped to Sweden. In 2009 while in Stockholm, Christodoulos Panayiotou (born 1978 in Limassol, Cyprus) researched the photographic archive associated with the Cyprus collection, now part of the Medelhavsmuseet collection in Stockholm.

The photographs constitute a starting point for “Days and Ages”, highlightening the role of archeological excavations in the construction of the image of Cyprus during the early 1920s, projecting backwards into antiquity.