kegome, 2022
Videoloop, 06:05 mins, 16:9
Kegome quotes Costas Ferrie‘s 1983 film Rembetiko and refers to the loss of home and identity of people who have been uprooted by the war and the shifting of national borders. The viewer feels the pain of the artist‘s grandfather. He was born on the Greek-Albanian border and had to flee during the civil war; he later came to Germany as a guest worker. He symbolizes migrants who feel like strangers both in their home country and in their place of residence. This longing is inherited in the family. The perpetual expulsions and uprooting give rise to fears that this is a fundamental and increasingly inherited feeling among the peoples of Europe and the world, with music and dance becoming the unifying element ofc community and identity.
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Installation Views: Moving Distances, Nilsson, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2022