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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">‘Engagement &
Entrapment’ </span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">Curated by Diana
Ali (UK)</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">A Visual Arts
exhibition exploring enticement, allurement and attention. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'">24<sup>th </sup>July-07<sup>rd</sup>
August 2015</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Zmart Gallery of the Loukia & Michael Zampelas Art Museum</span></p>
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Makarios III Avenue, Kaimakli, 1020 Nicosia, Cyprus</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Concept: </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Engagement is a way of capturing
attention, a way of alluring and a way of enticing to possess ownership. We
could implement this as a way of attracting an audience, being drawn into a
system and in turn be captivated. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">What is the ethical concern over this? Is
the viewer guilty for being engrossed in a piece of work that is deemed vulgar
or inappropriate; a guilty pleasure? Is the accused guilty until proven
innocent? Is the artist wrongly committed for a self-indulgent expression? </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(38,38,38)"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Who:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">International artists have been invited
to explore a subversive engagement, use tactics and trickery to captivate and
which contests rules and laws of a system. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Tahoma">Further
info: </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"><a href="http://engagementandentrapment.blogspot.co.uk/">http://engagementandentrapment.blogspot.co.uk/</a>
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<div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Diana Ali<br><br>Visual Artist & Curator, UK<br><a href="http://www.dianaali.com" target="_blank">www.dianaali.com</a> <div><br> <div>Skype: dianaali2artist2curator</div></div><div>Twitter: Diana Ali@DianaAli22</div></div></div>
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