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.

Gathered here, these 12 artists treat creation not merely as representation, but as a physical and emotional excavation of the self. Rooted in the complex geography of Cyprus and extending into the diasporic experiences of their creators, the works interrogate how identity is constructed through the interplay of heritage, displacement, and the material world. From the raw, mineral pigments of Adonis Antoniou that literally embed the Cypriot landscape onto the canvas, to Natali Touloupou's fusion of digital design and traditional embroidery and Katerina Efstratiou's contemporary loom work - both reimagining the ancestral Fythkiótiko technique - the show explores the tension between the static and the evolving. 

The human figure serves as a central vessel for these inquiries; Sarah Rabiee and Mary Savva depict bodies as sites of vulnerability and estrangement, where fragmented histories and displaced landscapes mirror the fluidity of home. In contrast, Daria Fetisova and Kristina Kaspi push the form toward the surreal and the monumental, using the metaphor of sport and the absurdity of food to examine resilience and the quirks of daily existence. Meanwhile, Anastasia Antoniou transforms personal photographic archives into expressive paintings that map the fragility of memory, while Chara Kontopoulou seals her own recollections in luminous resin that demands the viewer’s own reflections.