Edit Your Future, BB8 Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2018, Romania
About Edit your Future for BB8: Stability, Structure and Strength
The last days I thought many times about the definition of homeland. I thought about the many times I´ve had to change my biography. I started with Yugoslavija, then turned it after the collapse of Yugoslavija into EX-Yugoslavija as a casual expression, meaning what did you to do me and to my friends forcing them to flee out of the country. Years later into Serbia-Montenegro, and today as a matter of fact, Serbia. The Country I was born in, the country i abandoned. I moved with my mother to Germany when I was 3 years old.
I remember the death of Tito, president and leader of Yugoslavija as breaking news on german television and a decade later this country started to fell apart into pieces. As it felt not already complicated enough, with my hungarian background and with my german father, nothing much was left in the way to remember where i was coming from, only my memories of a short happy childhood.
This work Karosmetic was made originally in 1999, and i exhibit at BB8 a new varied, a smaller version of it. This piece symbolizes stability, structure and strength, all attributes i missed in the time of big changes. It is a wildcard for all the people who lost their homes, their way back home and giving them a new opportunity to find a new home as i found mine.