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to see more details on the overall exhibition and graduated students, please go to:
thecurrent.is

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~ it is 8 in the evening. me, my sister and my parents are all in front of the tv at my grandparents’. a few thousand kilometers away in eindhoven, my uncle is just finishing up his shift. he will buy a prepay sim worth 5 or 10 mins call to call all six of us.
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the tv in the living room shows another top story from italy, or maybe france, where another gang of romanian beggars has been captured by the police. my parents are dissapointed, but not surprised. they make a semi-ironic comment about how we (romanians) are deep down all the same. my grandparents both sad and surprised. they thought of how during the regime, they could never even dream of visiting italy or france.
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i am one the other hand waiting for my uncle to call. i want to ask him if they have tigres and giraffes and dinosaurs roamning the streets of netherlands. he will tell me that there’s not alot of dinosaurs left in the netherlands, but that there are alot of tall buildings and people of all kinds living here – it all looks like new york, he’ll tell me. ~
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my graduation work is an instalation that honors these precious memories i had as a child.
all my questions and research about self perception, cultural dysphoria and the complexities of colonialism go back to this symbolic moment of one family reuniting across borders; living in, or seeing themselves through the eyes of the west, trying to make sense of it all.

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