The Island (I love Europe and Europe loves me)

The Island (I love Europe and Europe loves me)
Author: Antje Majewski, Sebastian Cichocki
Publisher: Neugerriemschneider
Language: English, German
Pages: 38
Size: 30 x 21 cm
Weight: 300 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN:
Availability: In stock
Price: €10.00
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The text L.A.S.T.L.E.A.K. (I love Istanbul and Istanbul loves me) by Sebastian Cichocki tells us about an island on which wild dogs attack prisoners who are abandoned there, wrapped in blankets. On this island a trodden path becomes visible, and it is unclear who could have created it – the prisoners cannot walk, and the dogs do not trod paths.
In Antje Majewski’s painting Die Insel (I love Europe and Europe loves me), an island emerges from a dark sea. No living being is visible, not even plants. The island’s gigantic body seems to be a living being in itself. It might swallow all things that land there. Next to the big island are paintings of miniatures that were made by the prisoners of Ravensbrück from toothbrushes. Many represent cute little dogs: dogs that are a part of a peaceful, normal life. In reality, the prisoners had to fear the German Shepherds trained to attack fleeing prisoners.
There are many people in today’s world that are persecuted or threatened with death in their countries. In her reading of Cichocki’s story, Antje Majewski deduces the claim to help refugees in the real world. Germany should take its fundamental law for asylum seriously.