The video "Once Upon a Time" is the result of a German-Israeli artists’ exchange in 2011 under the title "Heimat - Homeland". It reflects experiences of the artist of her early life in the German Democratic Republic where she participated in the Monday demonstrations that led to the fall of the Wall.
At Hotel Gracanica, it will be shown behind the grilled windows of a kiosk that, until the Nineties, used to stand in front of the headquarters of the security forces in Pristina. In the video, the artists cuts, one by one, the barbed wire around her. An allegory for individual and collective prisons and the liberation from them. Kosovo counted and counts many of them.
Gollub’s other works shown at Hotel Gracanica take up the thread of the video in prints - that show woolen threads that look like barbed wire - and light objects.
At the opening, you will also have the chance to see choreographies of the multiethnic Urban Dance Group of the Diakonie Youth Center in Mitrovica.
Mardi 22 juillet à 20 heures
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