I don’t have borders to protect

 

Sead Kazanxhiu’s statement “I don’t have borders to protect”, written with golden balloons, serves as a kind of ironic celebration of the future (obsolescence) of borders.  The artist explains that in his Rromani language, there is no word for ‘’border ‘’. It does not exist. When his community wants to speak about borders, they refer to the equivalent words in other languages. The sentence “I don’t have borders to protect” becomes a testimony left by the artist’s grandfathers, a remnant of the times when they were forced to go into war. His ancestors hid their children  to keep them from going to war to protect borders that his people never had.

 

Public installation

Materials: Writing in balloon letters

Dimentions: Variable

2017