Regina Sárvári, one of the exhibiting artists of the group exhibition Border Situations, observes the workings of social and political languages in her text-based works that move across multiple media. How long does a sentence remain a slogan, and when does it become the material — and the burden — of everyday life?
During the workshop, we will transform the public and political messages surrounding us, which become increasingly suffocating and tension-filled as the elections approach, into personal and positive content through warm-up exercises and collective creation.
Using recycled, colorful textiles and yarns, we will create approximately 10×10 cm aroma pillows filled with dried herbs that help relieve tension and support meditation and rest. Instead of negative or emptied-out slogans, participants will sew words or phrases onto their own pillows that are meaningful, calming, or newly reinterpreted for them. In this way, everyone will be able to take home a unique, handmade object.
The workshop is also an opportunity for shared reflection, conversation and slowing down within a small community — a chance to reinterpret the political noise around us together and transform it into something entirely different.
🧵 All necessary tools and materials will be provided, but if you have any unused textiles at home, feel free to bring them with you.
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The workshop is an accompanying event of Border Situations, the Budapest exhibition of the LEAP – LEgAcy in Progress: (Re)Constructing European Narratives and (De)colonising Discourses project.
The event is co-funded by the European Union’s CERV program.