Work in Progress, 2023-2024
This body of work was made by ‘collaging’ different photographic elements into 3d spatial models. These elements include abstracted shapes and silhouettes, most of them taken from British colonial archival photographs, as well from magazine off-cuts.
The archival photographs used, depict Cypriot pupils in and around their schools, as well as the 'English school', that was founded in Nicosia during the British rule on the island (1914-1960), and still operates today.
This body of work aims to explore how colonial education has been used as a means of serving political interests and steering collective identity forming. It is also a reminder on how photographs are often thought of as snapshots of history or truth, when they are actually staged, cropped and often presented out of context. These images act as de-constructed/ abstracted versions of ‘reality’ or ‘truth’, becoming almost like abandoned sets from a performance, that could hold or lack meaning based on the way they seen.