Detour. One Particular Sunday
Three-channel video installation, 60 min., 2006-2008
After Perestroika, a large number of former Soviet citizens migrated to Italy in search for work. Around 300.000 Ukrainian women now live in Rome and support their families back home by taking care of old people. Locked up in Italian homes and invisible during the week, they come out on Sundays, their only day off and take over particular sites, such as the “Park of Resistance”. The video examines the effects of these resent developments - illegal migration, issues of double identity and the formation of informal communities and economies. It concentrates on individuals who involuntarily become part of these processes and grasps a time fragment in the current history of “unified Europe” where a considerable number of people are not only excluded but also subjected to contemporary forms of slavery. Three videos are synchronized, running parallel with cross-references to the characters, their stories and places they are “using” from morning to late night. The projections spatial arrangements allow the viewers to construct the narrative through personal selections within the three videos.
Fallen out of the Cold
Poster Wall and give away double-sided poster
Rome. Ropes left over after suicides and a new graffiti of the old symbol. The passage leading towards the destination (end point). The light in the images comes from the east and from the west, it points in the direction of the right and the left. Two opposites. Repeated as wallpaper one opposite is mixed in the pattern of the other. As given away, the double-sided poster lead to making a choice - selecting one side.
Latent Countdown
Illusion, Poster for wallpaper
A cross pattern is organised to cause deception. It’s creating an illusion as a human eye compensates in the white circle of each intersection with a grey dot popping up. As the eye moves across, the dots bounce and escape the eye, making it impossible to count or to hold a stable image. Additionally, as wallpaper the pattern creates an image of a fence. All images repeated on street walls use the aesthetics of election posters.