A project created in collaboration with internally displaced children aged 5 to 13 years, with children who were forced to leave their homes with their parents in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.
The installation represents the traumatic experience of leaving home, adaptation to a foreign place. It’s about getting used to a new community despite prejudice. The goal of the author was to share the experience of the displaced children with a wide audience.
The installation was created in several stages: first children were drawing buildings. They were analyzed together with architects and turned into the installation. It resulted in a multi-layered narrative space in which child's language reveals mature dramatic experience.
The installation contained a video on which displaced children were telling their own stories in fairy-tale-format. The fairy-tale treatment inside out deals with the articulation of contradictory facts and attitudes in order to overcome the social prejudice and distance between displaced children and society.
The project was created in collaboration with Zasutsky Architects.
