Travel Pick: Art and Archaeology in United States
Zafos Xagoraris: The Sound of Acre

Avenida Rio Branco: The Sound of Acre is a sound installation created by Zafos Xagoraris for The 27th Sao Paulo Biennial. This public installation is expanding the range of Acre, bringing sounds of this area of the Amazon region to the center of the largest city of Brazil.

Xagoraris's paintings and sound installations are based on his practice of recording and later broadcasting the silence of Cyprus's villages that were abandoned after the partition of the island between Turks and Greeks. His works represent absence and displacement through a poetic accumulation of images and concepts that span human history from the ancient to digital times. Xagoraris took part in the project Paradigmata, representing Greece in the 9th Venice Biennale of Architecture, and in The 27th Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil. He lives and works in Athens, Greece.