Neda Nikolic: In die weite Welt hinein Event

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Neda Nikolic
“In die weite Welt hinein”

What if you decide to leave everything behind and start a new chapter in life? What happens if you must leave a place that used to be home? How then to define home and familiar?

With “In die weite Welt hinein” exhibition project I would try to answer some of these questions. There is a certainly a moment in life when most of the people go out into the world, to study, to earn money, to escape a war zone, to pursue happiness. It is impossible to take everything with you. You can carry a bag, take a family member, but you can’t take all your belongings.
So, you grab memories. Pictures of childhood events, birthdays, holidays, places you have seen. Memories get worn out, reduced and what stays are just reminiscences of familiar objects. You have been on slide, you saw a slide in a park, maybe it has a different color but it is the same object that you know. You remember a park, favorite ball, sandpit. There are common places, but each one of us perceive those differently. That makes them our own personal places.

My playgrounds seem recognizable but are put in apocalyptic settings, somewhere between reality and a dream. Some situations seem impossible, like stairs to the earth hole. Those liminal places exist in dreams, thoughts, transition. It is conundrum which eventually can get resolved. There is an invitation to experience those places and at the same time a farewell message. Every open door needs to get closed at one point.