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?