Berlin Belgrade Tehran Tbilisi
Nowhere FastCulterim, Berlin, Germany
Nov 2024
Departing from airport signage and its ubiquitously casual usage of the word other, Left Lane Must Turn Left features such a sign on a transporting cart, skewing the established preconceptions of who the “others” are.
The work speculates a passport control booth, equally likely being taken down or put up, where the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement have “right of way.” The Movement, which has since its conception in 1961 morphed from its founding principles, has always featured a most diverse collection of countries — this list, in 2021 arguably as arbitrary as any grouping of states, brings the oft-forgotten Movement into the spotlight, while as well underscoring the hierarchization of freedom of movement.The work series Walk Don’t Run manifests from stories of struggle, resistance and triumph in relation to outward movement: exiting, emigrating, escaping. The nearly internationally adopted emergency exit sign here becomes a symbol of our shared realities; its main character, a mere stick figure barely resembling a human, indicates to us how we should behave in the face of danger. How can we universalize it? What is standard about the impossible choice of fleeing one’s home(land) in the face of danger or uncertainty?
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