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Reason to stay
2016, Installation of sheets, videoprojection (53min), aquarel drawings
2016, Installation of sheets, videoprojection (53min), aquarel drawings
The installation questions the motivation of foreigners why have they decided to live in Slovakia. The space of the room is devided by authentic sheets from the refugee camp in Rohovce into two areas. The first one is the semi-closed, private space where the visitor can sit and see the videoprojection of the intimate videoportraits of 6 refugees. They tell their stories from the moment they arrived to Slovakia, either in their native language or in Slovak if they can speak it fluently. Their speech is accompanied by animation which uses watercolour drawings and its slow fade-over to create associative illustrations of the text. Every drawing is made from several layers in different colors, the first one is always the view on some part of Bratislava. Then it's slowly overlayed by imaginary drawings of figures, animals, everyday objects. The second part of the installation is outside of the sheets. On the frontal sheet there is the drawing of the graph of migration system in Slovakia. The visitor can also browse in the original aquarel drawings situated on the table next to the installation of sheets.