Kitchen conversations

2024

21 engraved knives

An installation of 21 kitchen knives engraved with recognisable phrases that refugees and forced migrants hear regularly. All the words are taken from real-life situations, and based on my own research, they reflect recurring patterns of verbal expressions.

Is your property still intact?

Victory does not have any sense 

You have to be sorry for russians soldiers killed in Ukraine

Why don't you care so much about other wars? 

Russians do not have a choice, they are just poor people

Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 

Do you still have alive relatives in Ukraine?

War opened so many opportunities to you abroad 

Everything passes 

All is not so bad 

It is the Putin’s war 

Is war still going?

How do you think it will end up?

You probably like here 

Don't take it to heart 

But there is no fights in your city

When are you going back? 

Do you speak Russian?

It will not be like before 

Oh poor you 

Are you ok?