Varuj!

 site-specific painting, pub in the village Ilija near to Banska Štiavnica, video, 2'55”

 

Work uses the fragments from the Slovak movie “Varuj!” (1946, directed by Martin Frič) which are stencilled on the walls of the pub with the style which reminds of the traditional paint-roller wall decoration. The subtle difference between two figures after several repetitions makes change the scene from peaceful to aggressive. Animation, created from the images on the wall, is accompanied by the audio of the interviews with three persons about the biggest Roma holocaust which happened in Ilija during the Second World War. Every person talks about the incident from different perspective: one experienced it as a child, the second one heart about it from his gipsy grandmother, the third one from the grandfather living near to the gipsy ghetto. All the discourses differ from each other.