Out of the Shadows
The Cyprus Problem

Rotterdam
Witte de With
06/11/04 - 09/01/05

In public museums the damage that has been done over the years by nationalist ideoligies van be viewed. They reveal both the blind spots and the gynnastics that are used in attempt to cover them up.

Museums and school textbooks complement each other in the construction of retrospective mythologies on both sides of the border. They compete for the posession of historical truth by equating nation (ethnic group) with state.

The rows of glorified heros and victims follow the logic of propaganda, which blacks out everything that might change the narrative.