@Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, SWE
An installation. a group of brown leather sofas, consisting of one-, two- and three-seater sofas, a video loop and an enlarged photograph frames the installation work. The image depicts the autobahn outside Berlin, from a bridge. All of the sofa’s upholstery has been removed to the core, so, the structure and shape are visible to the viewer. The sofas various parts hangs suspended in the air. The video begins with still images depicting the specific sofas original appearance in the artists childhood home. Following scenes where the artist and her aunt, Vera, together performs an act of remembrance with a song. Vera's memory focuses on this specific folksong while the artist takes notes of the lyrics. The song is about love, loss, tradition, and resistance. It is sung in Vera’s second mother tongue, Macedonian. In the song we find three main characters, the young man Stoyan, his mother, and Lilyana the young woman. Stoyan, has to leave home to work in America to make money and come home rich to marry Lilyana. There are many obstacles he must concur. He asks his mother how to do all of these and win Lilyana. Mother tells him that he must summon three hundred workers, make a colorful tap with cold running water, and gather all the people in the village for the wedding. He does all that. Then he returns home to find the young woman, Lilyana, gone.
Finlandia (memories from a couch group) installation view, readymade, photograph, dvd loop 
Installation view, detail, Finlandia (memories from a couch group) readymade sofa. Back on the wall: photography c-print, Autobahn 135x180 cm (1997)
extract from “Songs from abroad”, dvd loop 7,35 min. @Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, 2003
installation view, dvd loop 7,35 min. @Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, 2003