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exhibition brings together images of migrants, refugees and second and third
generation Greek Cypriots living in Britain. It shows objects brought from
Cyprus by the migrants and those held in esteem by subsequent generations.
The work represents identity and the nuances of displacement through confrontations
with the photographer. Photographs and recording are intended to provoke
contemplation of possession and loss, and the negotiations involved in losing
and reconstructing identity, with all that process comes to mean for future
generations. To understand the foreigner, we must first identify the foreigner
within ourselves. Many ethnic cultures have dissolved before the full impact
of a world culture defined by media and validated by new expressions of
need and pleasure. Cultural shifts are evident in the immigrant Greek Cypriots
communities of British cities. Subsequent generations have needed to bridge
the old and the new, the foreign and the native. John Nassari is interested
in how single images can represent those complex relationships and how they
can be mediated by objects and attitudes exhibition. |