Nico Carpentier's
Mirror of Conflict -
Iconoclastic Controversies 2

Nico Carpentier's
Mirror of Conflict -
Iconoclastic Controversies 2

Combining his academic research with artistic practice, Prof. Nico Carpentier's 'Mirror of Conflict - Iconoclastic Controversies 2' photography exhibition meets with the audience at the santralistanbul Campus Energy Museum. The exhibition mirrors how monuments in Cyprus intersect with the dominant ideologies in the south and north of the island

The photograph exhibition “Mirror of Conflict – Iconoclastic Controversies 2”, which consists of the works of Prof. Nico Carpentier, who is known for bringing academic research and artistic practice together, will meet with the audience at Istanbul Bilgi University santralistanbul Campus Energy Museum between 9-22 October 2023.

The exhibition, which discusses the monuments in Cyprus and how these monuments intersect with the dominant ideologies in the south and north of the island, consists of 93 photographs taken by Carpentier and the in-depth academic texts accompanying these photographs.

The exhibition presents an academic and artistic analysis of how monuments reflect and simultaneously criticize dominant ways of thinking. It also questions how the monuments in the south and north of Cyprus are related, their similarities and differences.

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,” says Nico Carpentier.

Who is Nico Carpentier?

Nico Carpentier is an academic, curator and artist. He holds the position of Extraordinary Professor at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic). Currently, he is also president of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (2020-2024). In this capacity, he has published extensively on Cyprus, including the two books The Discursive Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation (2017, Peter Lang, New York) and Iconoclastic Controversies: A Photographic Inquiry into Antagonistic Nationalism (2021, Intellect, Bristol). He often uses arts-based research methods, combining photography, sound art and installation art, resulting in a series of exhibitions, including Respublika!, Iconoclastic Controversies I, Wolf Talks and The Mirror of Conflict (Iconoclastic Controversies II).

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