LOCALS

‘’Locals’’ is a project, investigating the problem of population migration and the concept of borders. Usually we associate borders with the processes of human movement, but in reality it is often the borders that „migrate” over populations.History presents us a lot of such situations. After world war II, agreements between members of the anti-Nazi coalition changed the pre-war borders of Central and Eastern Europe. About a third of Poland's territories were annexed to the Soviet Union (transformed into the Lithuanian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian Soviet republics), and in return it received an equivalent in the form of lands previously part of the German state. In my projections I unite and mix the images of the former generations of the territories that earlier were considered to be one unity and nowadays are on the different sides of the border, forming a unique periphery identity of „locals”. Projections of the archive photos from one territory were lightened on the buildings of todays other country’s territory, following the guest of „movement” decision of the government authorities of those days. Symbolically and metaphorically I visualise the trauma of migration.