‘East West North South’, 2014

East West North South is a piece about chance, identity, and memory. An old map of Istria, a place shaped by a long history of shifting borders, is folded into the childhood game we used to play to tell the future. On the outside we would write the four sides of the world, and inside we would hide answers to our questions, waiting for chance to open them up.

By turning the map into this playful oracle, the work connects personal memory with the political story of a region. It speaks about how belonging is formed and re-formed, and how curiosity about the future is always tied to the past.

It is at once a game, a question, and a reminder of the unpredictable paths that identity and history can take.