Artist Bio

Mariel Kouveli (b. 1993 in Nicosia) lives and works in Nicosia. Kouveli’s work focuses on the leisurely or mundane moments in everyday life, in an obsessive and repetitive observation into the human nature, the origins and idiosyncrasies of humanity and the perception of one’s surroundings. Through digital and cellphone photographs, scanned and archival images, the subjects often become characters observed from a distance, yet feeling strangely familiar.

She received her MA in Photography from London College of Communications, University of the Arts London in 2018. She has recently shown her work in the solo exhibition Reel time, Thousand Julys, presented as part of Limassol Art Walks (2023) and the group exhibition Not knowing yet – possibly not knowing ever, Pylon Art & Culture, Limassol (2023).