Halfsister Berlin
Torgauer Straße 1
10829 Berlin, next to Südkreuz
2 September
Opening at 19:00
2-5 September
Operation Swallow
Natalia Vatsadze/Bouillon Group
What spaces do I belong to?
What spaces belongs to me?
The words “homeland” and “mother tongue” seem to suggest directions for finding answers to these questions. Seem? What?
Georgian Natalia Vatsadze is a descendant of deported Pontic Greeks from one country to another during the era of building nation states. “Building a nation state” is still a reason for deportations, wars, political and forceful arguments. But what then belongs to us? Our memory? Like a swallow – a bodily memory of space in motion, navigation in which leads us to home. Traces and words about me-spaces, my sensations become navigation in motion. But then how do you answer the questions who am I and where am I?
Motions in Natalia’s artistic and activist practice produces traces, gestures, objects, things, documents of motions – these are not answers, but continuations of the search through exchange and active sharing with Others and attention to what is happening now. This process of exchange is very much in need of doubts and conversations, because it is a process of reformulating the questions above.
Text: Denis Esakov
(Bouillon Group members Teimuraz Kartlelishvili and Vladimer Lado Khartishvili’s works will be presented as part of an installation.)
The exhibition is a Part of UTOPIENALE https://www.utopienale.org/contact/