SHORT TIME STAY (2016)
2016 / intervention / Kumu, Tallinn (EE) & CC Diest (BE) / PVC pipes, tape, plastic sheets
Recent years have shown how governments and media deal with the problematic nature of migration. When temporary camps get built, the media highlights stories from within the camps and the impact on the surrounding areas. This information gives the government a fabricated reason for demolishing the camps within weeks.
Short Time Stay consists of a series of site-specific installations built in the surroundings of Kumu in Tallinn (EE) and Citadel’Arte in Diest (BE) dealing with this situation.
The viewer only gets to see the tweaked collages that were produced from the photographic documentation of the site-specific interventions, which were built and quickly taken down before the opening of the exhibition. What is left are representations that have no indication of time or explanation of the function of what is portrayed.