Mind the territories
Auschwitz, mapping the territory. Searching for the theories that would explain the moment in which we have found ourselves right now. Asking questions about the nature of the chaos that bears many of the same characteristics of the Second World War. Collecting various materials and creating a site-specific installation consisting of materials found in situ (wires, rocks, broken bird’s shell) and many other objects that were found in the desert (barbed wire, dried leaf) or in the container (scales) and therefore, were collected in the places of suffering and hostility. The center of the installation is a map of Auschwitz. The map as a closed territory. The map as a collection of transgenerational wounds. The map as a mirror of a human’s actions. The map as a collection of ideas, a node of bits of information. We have domesticated the cosmos, anesthetized ourselves to a point of no return, to the point where we started hurting each other as we did during World War II.
Map of Auschwitz, drawings, scans of manipulated maps of Auschwitz, needle and thread, stripes of white canvas, broken cup, tracing papers, cross-section papers, pins, and empty cup of coffee left after drinking it.
Bone, dried leaf, barbed wire, asphalt, coal (found in the desert), stones, dirt, broken eggshell,
wires (found in situ)
Muzeum Holokaustu Sered, Sered, Slovakia, 2023
