If one thinks one loves freedom, but does not care if it applies to everyone, what one actually loves is a privilege

This work works with the phenomenon of the border stone as some kind of essence or main symbol of the state border. I see it, for environmental or humanitarian reasons, as a fictional construct of Western states, serving imperialist and populist interests. Today, especially in the face of global challenges such as the climate crisis, it is clear that we are facing common problems that national borders do not solve - on the contrary, they often only deepen the divisions. In fact, there is no ‘us and them’, we are one humanity. Migration, then, is not only a natural response to inequalities, but also a logical, economically advantageous and, above all, often inevitable step. However, people are often constrained by where they were born - their privileges and opportunities are predetermined by their place of origin and therefore by their passport, which determines whether they have the opportunity to seek a better life in another part of the world or, on the contrary, to share their privileged position with someone born elsewhere. 

In its mobility, the border stone is thus a kind of stimulus for a subversive discussion on this topic, because it is not only possible to move it as one pleases, but it is also possible to symbolically take it somewhere else and thus imaginatively expand the border as needed. For although stones are normally presented in their heaviness and solidity, the national border has never been something immutable. The contrived border demarcation after the First World War, for example, but also the current conflicts are a good example of this. The aesthetics based on standard boundary stones are then complemented by authorial elements that deliberately try to distinguish the stone from standard boundary stones. These elements disrupt both the boundary stones themselves and their essence of creating some rigidly defined space.

plaster objects with ready-made wheels

each object 5cm x 50 cm x 120cm

January 2025