Πεլ collective

independent art project by artists Elena Adamou, Liana Ghukasyan, and Pantelis Nicolaou, April 2022-Today

Πεլ collective aims to make arts benefits accessible to everyone by bringing colour to places that lack it. The team is interested in visiting detention centres, nursing homes, campuses for refugees, and schools with special education units to organize creative activities and create more pleasant environments through art. It is scientifically proven that every form of art can help combat mental and physical illnesses. Imagery, colours, nature, and painting change people's feelings and have a positive effect on their mental and psychosomatic conditions. Indulging in artistic creation is a method with therapeutic properties. Positive results are particularly evident in closed structures with people facing physical or mental illnesses. The team seeks to beautify and add colour to a particular space through creative activities and visual interventions with the ultimate goal of improving the mood of its patients or inhabitants, staff members, and visitors. The focus is mainly on painting murals with their help and, in this way, creating a collective experience for all to remember.

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ACTION 001 | Volunteering for Cyprus Red Cross

Menogia Detention Center (Section C), Larnaca (CY), 22-25.08.2022

Supported by the Cyprus Police, the Department of Human Rights and the Department of Psychosocial Support of CRC. More than 60 people were involved in the creation of the mural. Documentation by Yiannis Avraamides.

ACTION 002 | Supported by Peletico Group of Companies LTD 

Ayios Antonios Nursing Home, Nicosia (CY), 26-29.08.2022. 

With the participation of patients and staff members. Documentation by Italian journalist and photo reporter Anna Consilia Alemanno, and Yiannis Avraamides.

ACTION 003 | Let's Paint our School Together! Part of the EU project #Rebuild by Cardet NGO

Special Education Unit, Ayios Georgios Public Kindergarten, Larnaca (CY), 22-29.01.2023.

After being selected by the public and the jury, we represented Cyprus at the program's closing event in Brussels, where we presented our initiative at the European Parliament. Documentation by Yiannis Avraamides.