WORKSHOP 'THE RETURN OF A FOREIGN WORKER' KUCEVO - SERBIA 2007

The work 'The Other Skin' was done within the workshop 'The Return of a Foreign Worker' in Kucevo, 2007. It was organized by a Israeli artist, Noa Triester, who has lived and worked in Serbia for a number of years now.The programme of the workshop was interdisciplinary in character and it connected the artist and scientists of the local community. The artists' intentions were directed to identifying and defining of the economical and political process of returning of foreign workers, the phenomenon of foreign workers and their temporary or permanent return to Serbia. The artists had a task to include the locals into their project and to exhibit their works publicly. They were able to conduct interviews with the local foreign workers and to attend various lectures.

The work 'The Other Skin' averts our look from the shop window where it is exhibited and which is filled with clothes; from there it shows the symbols of life, death, birth, hope, power, past and future of the people we call foreign workers through painted shirts, trousers, dresses, scarves and children's dresses.

Clothes protect our body and make it possible for us to have a non verbal communication with other people, they speak of us. The clothes in 'The Other Skin' are taken from a shop, they have been remodeled and then returned to the shop, which is now a gallery and can sell a work of art. We carry the pictures of our lives everywhere we go and in time, they come to the surface more and more, thus shaping our body, clothes, communication, space and the world around us. Changes are possible only if there is observing, acceptance, insight and action.

Daliborka Đurić

Prevod/translation: Tijana Radisavljević