LOVE 2022

In 2022, slovakia made a big move against pollution and they made all plastic bottles and aluminium cans backed up with 15 euro cents so the people will finally start not to throw them all around and pollute the nature. suddenly, in a second, the thing that was always seen in eyes of society as something dark and dirty, became something so prescious, something that started to give a light to the life of the poor people, especialy roma people, of who a huge community live especially in eastern Slovakia, where they live in a huge hatred by the white slovak citizens and nobody really cares about them apart of the hate itself.

So why, when a dirty plastic bottle, can be reimagined as something so precious in a one second, we look on other human beings in such a way, that we dont give them a chance?

I stole the carts from the supermarkets and were buying the plastic bottles from random people in front of the shops. I put the carts in the city park for the night, expecting what is going to happen. On the both sides, front and back of the carts i put a signs. always same sign on one cart, in slovak
language on the front and in roma language in the back. the person who stands and hold the car turn the light on and can see the sign in slovak language, but cant see the roma translation.

The texts are about things that are completely basic for white people, but for roma they are important questions of life, that are not basic for them at all. “how much do you earn?”, “where do you live?”, “how are you?”,...LOVE in roma means MONEY.

After the exhibition, the remaining unstolen bottles were given back to roma people and carts, with the signs were brought back to the supermarket. the commodity of artwork disappeared.