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Niki Marangou
Niki Marangou'My mother came from Macedonia, North Greece and my father from Famagusta. This gave me a wide view of the Greek World as I grew up at its eastern point. We have been lucky as a generation to witness extremes. High technology and my grandmother weaving, gypsies with dancing bears and computers.
Six years in Berlin confused me enough. I needed the torpid summer noons of Nicosia to remind me again who I was. I did various jobs, taught pottery to blind children, worked for the theatre, run a bookshop.
The central point in my life has always been the passion with language, with the greek language in all its forms, contemporary, ancient, byzantine. I like to play with the language. This is why I opened a bookshop, so I could have all the books I wanted. This is why I sink in books, I go back to University, searching for words, looking for new games. I use words like colours to illustrate images. Some of them come from afar.'
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