Nicosia water tanks | Aristides Antonas

https://dprbcn.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/nicosia-water-tanks-aristide-antonas/

When we talk about architecture we also talk about environment, cities, art, research. The Nicosia water tanks project by Aristide Antonas [with the collaboration of Katerina Koutsogianni & Elina Axioti] is about the water systems of divided Nicosia in Cyprus and was inaugurated as a proposal for the unrealized “manifesta” in Cyprus, submitted then as a common work with the photographer Armin Linke.

Focusing the research as some kind of archaeological search, all their findings are accurated organized and with some descriptions added. The work is presented as a local displaced reading of a Bruno Latour‘s text about Paris, where he wrote:

The aim of this sociological opera is to wander through the city, in texts and images, exploring some of the reasons why it cannot be captured at a glance.

In the same way, Antonas and Linke tried to capture Nicosia’s glance focusing on what they called a “creation of finds” as a representation of one of the Cyprus most serious problems: the lack of water.