SINKING HOPE, “Femigrations”, USAID project for the protection of refugee rights conducted by the Macedonian Young Lawyers Association, exhibition held in Acanthus Gallery and City Park, Skopje; Museum of Kumanovo; Art Gallery, Veles; Bezisten, Shtip, Macedonia (2018).
An artwork which focuses on the hopeless situation (represented as a crossroad within a whirlpool and abyss) and the problems faced by refugees and migrants – closed borders (barbed wires). The impact of imposing restrictions on border closures is enormous – people transiting are at risk of being detained or repressed back across the border, forced to sleep outdoors or with limited access to help at risk of being abused by smugglers or criminal groups.
The image of the conditions which create the daily (non) functioning of society is created through the barbed wires with a central place in the artwork, carefully embroidered with thread that are part of a larger map, the cut of the world (world politics). The technical performance is the result of a process in which the manual performance, emotions and energy of the female sensibility are woven. The numbers and unknowns (x) that appear as part of the cut (pattern) complete the whole picture of the quantity and the condition of refugees who actually, do not belong to any state, their existence is being reduced to “invisible people”.