Among the first new art showcases of the New Year is a photography exhibition at the 6×6 Centre for Photography in Limassol. The Mirror of Conflict exhibition will open on January 20 and is a creation of the Belgian Prague-based university professor Nico Carpentier, who is known for the combination of academic analysis and artistic practice.

The 93 photographs, grouped on 33 metal stands, address the memorials of Cyprus, and how they intersect with the prevailing ideologies in the southern and northern parts of the island. It is an academic and artistic investigation of how memorials communicate dominant ways of thinking, but also how they sometimes critique them. The exhibition also investigates how the memorials in the southern and northern parts of Cyprus relate to each other, and how similar and different they are.

As Carpentier explains: “We see these statues and memorials everywhere in Cyprus, but we don’t pay enough attention to them, and to what they really tell us. They are voices of the past, the present and the future, and we should listen to them, as they make us understand ourselves better.”

Mirror of Conflict

Photography exhibition by Nico Carpentier. January 20 – 29 January. 6×6 Centre for Photography, Limassol. Opening: 6pm-9.30pm. Saturday: 10am-2pm, Sunday: 3pm-7pm, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 9am-6pm, Wednesday, Friday: 9am-2pm. Tel: 25-354810