Stars for Europe
installation • photographs • zine
exhibition at How Language Flows Zurich CH (2024) • Fotowerkschau Luzern CH (2023) • Hochschule Luzern CH (2022)
I was invited to a field trip to Romania. But how to encounter a new place, new people? How to create under the circumstances of not-knowing? I decided to ask and listen. Equipped with a camera, a notepad, and twenty printed questionnaires, I travelled to Bucharest in autumn 2022. There, I got to know one of the youngest EU member countries through its emerging generation. During my three weeks’ stay we established a dialogue about the construct of Europe, our different realities and shared hopes – about what connects us more than 2000 kilometres apart.
As I got the chance to exhibit at Fotowerkschau Luzern, I asked the same questions to my non-EU audience in Switzerland and thus continued the conversation. The video with my images and handwritten charts served as a diary and a platform for connection.
Thank you to all the wonderful people who shared their thoughts, livingrooms, experiences, opinions and dinners with me; above all, Mihai, Beatrice, Sandra, Teodora, Eva, Teodor, Ioana, Ali and Alexia.