My site specific project International Bun was shortlisted in in the upon invitiation competition about art in urban space Kunst im Stadtraum - Karl Marx Allee by the Berlin Senate. Screenings internationallly e. I have built a cityscape from everyday objects that I found in my house. From the assembly of objects and foods from a diverse set of cultures arise imaginative buildings that recall among others the numerous churches in their typical Armenian architecture, many of whom in ruins or destroyed after the rule of the Ottoman Empire, like they are pictured in books from my library.
She invented the building of Magic Cities for children and adults likewise to allow the playful examination of architecture and ones own built environment. My Magic City links my biography with world history. When building I feel connection with those of my family murdered and those who fled the Ottoman Empire to settle in Bulgaria. This is also a kind of self-empowerment in regards to squarely owning my place between the cultures and shedding the confining identities that were attributed to me by the outside growing up.
In the work I also use various symbols of the homogenous society in the former East of Germany where, as a child, I was assigned the status of a migrant, and became a target of racism. Exterior views of representative buildings are rebuilt in my private living room. In the magical cities speculaas cookies become concrete facades, sugar boxes domes, roofs pide, pantry and cityscape German: Speisekammer und Stadtansicht approach each other. All items Previous item Next item. Bidding ended. Starting price.
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