[ecrea] visual sociology project - Iconoclastic Controversies

On 17 September 2018, the third edition of Nico Carpentier's 
Iconoclastic Controversies exhibition opened in Brasilia. It will run 
until 5 October, at the Galeria FAU of the University of Brasilia, which 
is located at the UnB Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro at the Faculty 
of Architecture and Urbanism.

This project moves away from traditional academic texts to examine and 
analyze complicated social phenomena, such as those produced by the 
political situation in Cyprus. The idea behind this exhibition is that 
photographs can work just as effectively as a written academic text, in 
order to communicate an academic analysis.

The photographs analyze how statues and commemoration sites in the Greek 
Cypriot community narrate and frame the Cyprus conflict, and how they in 
many cases contain references to the “Self” and the “Other”. They 
present a heroic “Self” to the “Own” community, or show the suffering of 
the “Self”, which supports the divisive nationalist ideas on the island.

But the exhibition also investigates how some (exceptional) statues 
undermine this traditional representation of the “Self” and offer a 
different narrative of the conflict, one that undermines the logics of 
nationalism and war.

More about this project can be found at the Iconoclastic Controversies 
webpage at http://nicocarpentier.net/icontroversies/.

Moreover, a short, 2-minute film about the exhibition, can be viewed 
here: https://vimeo.com/290606097
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