“Αφήνοντας τον εαυτό μου. Φτάνοντας τον εαυτό μου.”
[Ένα μνημείο για όσους διασχίζουν σύνορα]
Installation, © Jana
Tziveleki, 2015
Expo: Walls/Τείχη/Muros
Webster Athens Cultural Center
[4-7 dec 2015]
The installation
“Leaving myself. Reaching myself.” is a monument, with readymade material,
dedicated to all those who cross borders, territorial or other kind. In the
middle of the serious crisis of the numerous refugees who are obliged to
migrate in our neighborhood, or in more distant neighborhoods, lately or
through the past years, this monument moves the importance beyond the borders
and the walls and focuses on the Human and how is obliged through the journey
to evolve crossing limits. The walls as an obstacle in his access to freedom,
what had to go through to get there and what will find on the other side is
part of the route that will affect him drastically, a personal process of
leaving behind his familiar self along with his land and discover another new
self in the land that heads on. A crucial experience, which most of the times
we can not foresee its ending and often we lose all the narrations that could
accompany it. This artwork desires to pay a tribute to this very personal
process of transformation of all those who cross borders and will never be the
same afterwards.
