One Face | Nicosia, Cyprus 2017/2018

“We are beautifully different as two halves of a face and beautifully similar as a whole”. The One Face project took place In Nicosia, the last divided capital city in the world with Jerusalem. Between May 2017 and October 2018, Sibomana headed off to Cyprus many times to try to understand why Cypriots, all living on the same island but on both sides of a separation wall, couldn’t find a way to live together.

“When arriving in Nicosia, discovering its people and willing to experience the city without the wall, I saw it and felt it as One Face. I witnessed many beautiful differences between both sides but what took over when hanging around and discussing with the locals, were the beautiful similarities. Each side is uniquely different but I would like to think they’re similar, similar as the right and left parts of one face”.

For this project, Sibomana pasted four big portraits on either side of the separation wall, inviting the bystanders to reflect about the actual division of the island, inviting all Cypriots to open their eyes to see the similarities between both cultures and to stop looking at the differences. He’s also actually working on a video documentary for this project.

One Face | North side of Nicosia, June 2017

One Face | South side of Nicosia, June 2017

One Face | North side of Nicosia, July 2018

One Face | South side of Nicosia, July 2018