New Forms, New Voices: Mary Savva
Mary Savva’s practice centres on figurative painting - she explores human nature and the complexities of identity, and investigates themes of home, memory, displacement, girlhood, and womanhood through the act of painting itself.
Working from imagery connected to where she grew up and where her works are produced, Savva combines these references into layered visual environments functioning as psychological and physical landscapes. Figures often appear disconnected from their surroundings, almost collaged onto the painted surface, emphasizing distance, displacement, and emotional separation from place.
Every painting becomes a form of self-portraiture, whether through the depiction of a body, a memory, a repeated image, or the emotional residue embedded within the paint. Savva is deeply interested in how repetition and abstraction shift focus away from representation alone, returning attention to painting as a physical and emotional act. By revisiting the same imagery across multiple works, her paintings communicate with one another, forming visual patterns and evolving narratives that resist fixed meaning.
Mary Savva (b. 1993) is a Cypriot artist born in Australia, who is currently living and working between London, Limassol, and Seoul. Her practice centres on figurative painting to explore themes of identity, belonging, and the shifting nature of home, often incorporating displaced Hellenistic sculptures and employing repetition to challenge traditional representation.
125 Space is proud to present New Forms, New Voices, a group exhibition showcasing the work of eleven emerging artists selected from a competitive open call that highlighted the vibrant and diverse talent currently shaping the local art scene.
As a platform committed to supporting emerging talent, 125 Space provides a professional context in which new artists can present their work and engage with collectors, curators, and the wider creative community. New Forms, New Voices reflects a dedicated interest in how these artists are redefining visual language through rigorous experimentation, material exploration, and critical engagement with contemporary conditions. While the selected works respond, both explicitly and intuitively, to urgent questions of identity, place, and cultural inheritance, they remain firmly open to broader global dialogues, demonstrating how new voices contribute to ongoing conversations within the international artistic community.
Exhibition opening
Friday, 5th of June 2026 at 18:00
Exhibition duration
6th of June – 18th of July 2026