In the organizer's words:

What happens when a family archive is destroyed - and why? Based on a personal family event - the death of her great-aunt Lucia and the destruction of her photo archive by her grandmother - Jana Romanovahas developed anartistic project that deals with family expectations, emotional vulnerability and the construction of identity. The work addresses the psychological and social impact of family secrets and offers access to reflection on memory, loss and belonging.

In an interactive role play in the morning, Romanova invites participants to re-read and reinterpret the fragments of a family history. The participants reconstruct not only a destroyed archive, but also the hidden stories behind it - between seriousness and playful curiosity.

In a performance in the afternoon, Jana recreates the process of restoring the destroyed family archive. As she works, she tells the story of her aunt Lucia, who tirelessly tried to find her place in the world, often through questionable jobs that invariably failed.

Participants

Jana Romanova is a multidisciplinary artist who works with games, performance and photography. Through role-playing, social games and various playful experiments, she explores in-between spaces, (in)visible systems that shape us, and what agency, care and ecological imagination might look like if we playfully test alternative forms of coexistence.

Her long-term projects have been shown at international exhibitions and festivals, including Prospects (Rotterdam), Copenhagen PhotoFestival, Format (UK), Chobi Mela (Bangladesh), Cortona on the Move (Italy), Encontros da Imagem (Portugal), Backlight Festival (Finland) and Encuentros Abietros (Argentina), among others. She has received several awards and honorable mentions worldwide.

She is particularly passionate about the idea of using games, play and playfulness as tools for creating meaningful connections.

- free of charge

- Ticketing is only valid for the interactive role play. Please book a free ticket online or at the box office in the foyer (tickets will be available shortly).

- Seminar room

- from 14 years

- Language: English

- Belongs to: Family relationships, Conceal or tell?