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"In the photographic volume 'Displace', Johanna DIEHL deals with the architectural traces of an ongoing conflict on the island of Cyprus, which has been divided for a good thirty-five years. In her extremely precise color photographs, the artist develops a typology of a sacred architecture that has undergone dramatic change through vacancy, transformation and destruction as a result of the many years of war. The term Displace, which means both 'displacement' and 'replacement', refers to the characteristic absence in the photographs of people who have had to leave their homes and places of worship - mosques in the Muslim north and Christian Orthodox churches in the south. At the same time, however, this term also describes the process of rededication and rewriting by another ethnic group that has resettled in the abandoned villages." (© Fotohof, 2011)