Leyley was born a refugee in South Sudan. The war, and the lack of freedom, forced her to flee. On the move since 2018, she arrived in the Netherlands three years ago, of which she spent almost two years in the emergency shelter on the Galaxy ship in Amsterdam. As a migrant in the Netherlands, she experiences a double feeling: she is finally safe, but simultaneously she experiences a lack of freedom. Recently, she has become entangled in bureaucratic red tape. It is a typical example of the how migrants' freedom is limited - in the hands of a bureaucratic system -and how they are forced, in Kafkaesque ways, to wait in uncertainty.
⬇ Ilse Kind
"The relationship with my phone used to feel like a one-way conversation. But now it is becoming more intelligent and is capable of responding back sometimes. Swiping from ad to ad, I am in a continuous feedback loop of who I am, both consciously and unconsciously. Or maybe, of whom should I be?" The ads Ilse sees on Instagram have a direct relationship to her life. We see this correlation as she juxtaposes these ads with Whatsapp conversations. In the marketers' attempt to frame Ilse as a consumer, they may also have an impact on her daily life.
⬇ Amely Sommer
"In the summer of 2021, I visited my hometown in rural East Germany to explore the political and social tensions I experienced there. The lack of economic, cultural, materialized and educational institutional capital leads to intergenerational frustration, which manifests itself in right-wing politics,drug abuse and mental illness. This project encounters with people that I wanted to leave behind, but at the same time, I am always a part of. I spoke with adolescents about their desires and dreams—about the feeling of coming of age in a region that is both stagnant and burning."
⬇ Kim Winders
"Visible/Invisible" is an interactive installation that explores empathy and connection. Kim Winder grew up with a brother with autism and learned empathy and self-reflection from his perspective. Her installation makes this tangible through a mirror, light and the physical presence of another person. Interacting with their own reflection and the mirrored presence of an unknown person creates a fleeting connection. By seeing oneself through the presence of another, the work provokes a dialogue. Symbolizing the transition from the digital to the physical world, this installation offers a safe yet tangible experience behind a screen.
⬇ Mykolas Valentinas
Faced with the horrors of World War II, two of the greatest minds of the century, Einstein and Freud, tried in an intimate correspondence to understand how such things could exist. Both agreed that the nature of humanity is extremely polarized. This destruction is the subject of the video installation The Conductor. The piece also examines the impact of this desire on a personal level and on the group as a community. The video additionally functions as acritique of ideology, as the chosen musical piece is Mozart's infamous 9th"Ode to Joy," which has been used by various radical governments, such as the Nazis, the Soviet Union, Soviet China, fascist right-wing South African parties, various guerrilla movements in South America, etc. All these polar opposite ideologies glorified the idea of brotherly love in humanity, but this in turn was distorted and used as a major motive and motivation forvarious crimes against the so-called fellow brothers and sisters. But to achieve this manipulation of truth, a distorted vision must be introduced. This is the role of the conductor. The musician always plays the right notes. They are never wrong, but can be led astray with a slight twist.
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