Installation DAHAM

Tapestry, Linnen + Cotton, ca. 150 x 600 cm, 2017

DAHAM is an austrian dialect word for at home.
At first DAHAM is a hommage to my grandparents who grew up in slavonia, eastern croatia (former jugoslavia) near the rivers danube and drave until they had to escape in 1944 caused in their german roots. As a young men in jugoslavian times my grandfather was a dyer, when he retired he started with weaving. When he and my grandmother told me something from the times in jugoslavia they were always telling stories from DAHAM.

At second the installation DAHAM represents the river danube that is border but also connects and lives. As a thoroughfare it is connecting, as a barrier it defines borders, it is habitat for fishes and other creatures, it is food donor, nutrient carrier, elemental force, itself threatened.