The Centre of Contemporary Art Diatopos presents the first solo exhibition by photographer Emma Louise Charalambous next month titled Amensalism. The exhibition explores the power relations affecting environmental and urban topography in Cyprus.

The solo show is divided into two parts and explores the power relations affecting environmental and urban politics in Cyprus. In the first part What’s Up With The Sky the artist adopts a documentary-style approach to explore issues of ecological and sociocultural importance of air pollution. Her work aims to communicate the power structures at play and stress the urgency of taking action to alternate the effects of the crisis.

In the second part of the exhibition, the body of work ‘Power Play’ offers an alternative perspective on the censorship and power struggle unfolding in urban spaces. By presenting covered-up graffiti as unintentional abstract public art, it argues that these interventions represent an unknown performative exchange between the authority and suppressed social actors. The resulting layered formations become an integral part of the urban aesthetic, leaving behind evidence of ‘sanitisation’ and the contraction of public space.

Amensalism

First solo exhibition by photographer Emma Louise Charalambous. Centre of Contemporary Art Diatopos, Nicosia. October 4 – 25. Tel: 22-766117. www.diatopos.com