Cartography of Silence is a conceptual mapping work that interrogates the normalization of war through the oversaturation of media imagery. Framed as a digital-style war map and referencing the ongoing Russia–Ukraine conflict, the work employs real-time video stills - frozen and embedded within a Google Earth screenshot - rendered at a resolution that becomes indistinguishable from afar.

From a distance, the piece resembles an ordinary geopolitical map. But as the viewer draws closer, hidden layers of violence and human suffering begin to emerge - revealing the brutal imagery we have been conditioned to overlook. The project challenges the viewer to pause, focus, and confront what has been numbed by repetition.

Born and raised in a divided Cyprus, the trauma of war and forced migration has deeply shaped my artistic vision. This project extends that personal history into a broader critique of global visual culture: one where wars are consumed like content, and destruction is buried under pixels and silence.

Format:
135 x 75 cm archival print on matte photographic paper, displayed as a wall-mounted “screen.” Composed of nearly 4,000 still frames sourced from hundreds of war videos, the work forms a dense visual terrain that blurs the line between documentation and disappearance.