Porzellanikon

The project BROKEN HEARTS, SHATTERED HEARTHS is on permanent display at Porzellanikon Hohenberg. 

PORZELLANIKON

Sirndinger Str. 48

95691 Hohenberg an der Egger / Germany

 

This installation is about the war in Ukraine and, more specifically, about the impact on Ukrainian families. Inside and outside Ukraine. The last standing hearts keep the light of the family, becoming lamps and orientation tools, while many others lost their function. No more light. They lie on floor, disfigured by external influence. They got walked over; they collapsed; they went off into splinters. Just fragments, or useless hearts, or small hearts full of blood. Children dismissed, taken to Russia, or left with a broken family. 

 

The blood of war and the heart-wrenching propaganda will keep their stain longer than the war itself: disillusioned by the strongest of ties, they will have to find new stability, a new family structure, a new source of information, a new reality. They will have to change their life. The questions now are two. How can shattered hearts go on and trust, love, and pulse for some new life? How can they keep the sparkle of life in this dim and doomed reality? The hearts are shuttered and shattered. They were hurt. They are now hurting.