‘East West North South’, 2014

East West North South is a project dealing with aleatorics, political and personal identity.

The old map of Istria is folded into a childhood game we used to play, serving as a vessel for predicting the future while trying to find out the answers to our questions and possible development of future events just out of curiosity.

Constructed out of an old map of Istria, a Croatian region with a rich history of occupation.  The identity in the region of Istria and among its people has always been regarded as specific.

Istrian people consider themselves a part of a completely separate state. Država Istra as they call it.

The maps have been folded into a game we used to play as children. On the outside of the folds we would write the sides of the world and inside one would write the possible answers to our questions. It is an aleatoric game of chances and possible futures.

This work is a visual jeu de mots dealing with the aleatoric elements and unknown possibilities while using the element of game referring to political issues, group, and individual identity.