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Text from the Invitation

Our times are marked by great demographic changes. Political and social circumstances generate a movement of populations from one country to another, either by force or by choice.
The  exhibition includes works of art which deal with the definition of identity and investigate the concept of “home”. Building a home in a new place means balancing between the need to conceal the former identity and a deep longing for the lost past, while endeavoring to create a new private space. Shown as a group, the artworks enter into a disturbing dialogue which exposes some truths of new and old settlers: how they see themselves and how they are seen by their social environment.

Each of the artists offers a personal viewpoint. What they have in common is the fact that they are not judgemental, but rather curious and investigative towards the environment.
The stories told in the works are personal ones. Every-day life, such as the activities at home and street sounds coming in through the window, envelop the visitor to the exhibition, who nevertheless remains detached. The artistic act creates a critical distance and a new connotation. The well-known and the self-evident are examined from a different point of view.