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Art exhibition at GFMD World Conference

The video project realized by German artist Sylvia Henze is based on a real life situation: a refugee family has been living in Nicosia over 30 years; one window in their house opens directly onto the UN controlled “Greenline” that divides the island. The family had never been able to open the window since the island’s separation. It took an international agreement to allow them to open the window for precisely 5 minutes every hour. “The Window” shows these five minutes. It consists of 24 individual one hour sequences shown on 24 monitors; 12 hours depicting the situation inside the room and 12 hours showing the view of the window from inside the UN buffer zone.

“Sylvia Henze’s art provides a fitting frame for the GFMD World Conference”, said Director Bettina Peters. “It illustrates and sympolises a lot of what the work of the GFMD is about. We bring together media development practitioners from over 100 countries who work to create and strengthen media landscapes that provide relevant and quality information for all and that create conditions for open public discourse within countries and across borders and divides.”

“The Window” will be part of the GFMD’s marking of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th.

For more information contact Sylvia Henze at:
Telephone: +491725429913
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