Why Nicosia exhibition caused an uproar

As visitors approached the final installation of A Slight Indisposition, the controversial exhibition which drew to a close on Sunday at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (Nimac), what comes into view is the large trunk of a mulberry tree embedded with copper coins covered in verdigris.

From afar, the work by the British artist Fauve Alice entitled ‘a hammer, a coin, a cry, a wish’ looks like a fragment of a dragon’s tail. Up close, it offers several different interpretations....