On 20 January 2023, the images exhibition “The Mirror of Battle” will open within the 6×6 Centre for Pictures in Limassol.
The exhibition is a creation of the Belgian Prague-based college professor Nico Carpentier, who is understood for the mix of educational evaluation and inventive observe.
The 93 images, grouped on 33 metallic stands, handle the memorials of Cyprus, and the way they intersect with the prevailing ideologies within the southern and northern elements of the island. It’s a tutorial and inventive investigation of how memorials talk dominant methods of considering, but additionally how they often critique them. The exhibition additionally investigates how the memorials within the southern and northern elements of Cyprus relate to one another, and the way comparable and totally different they’re.
As Nico Carpentier explains: “We see these statues and memorials in every single place in Cyprus, however we don’t pay sufficient consideration to them, and to what they actually inform us. They’re voices of the previous, the current and the longer term, and we should always take heed to them, as they make us perceive ourselves higher.”
The “Mirror of Battle” exhibition runs from 20 to 29 January 2023, within the 6×6 Centre for Pictures, Vasiliou Makedonos 30, 3040 Limassol.
The opening is on Friday 20 January 2023 from 18:00-21:30.
Opening occasions are Saturday: 10:00-14:00; Sunday: 15:00-19:00; Monday – Tuesday – Thursday: 09:00-18:00; Wednesday & Friday: 09:00-14:00.