Slepa Baba

Blind Man´s Buff

 

2012

Digital Photograph

 

Photographs from a performance set in a Roma settlement in Banska Štiavnica.The Blindman was a white male adult whose eyes were covered with a band embroidered with the word “periphery”. Children wore black balaclavas with the embroidered word “center”.

180 x 250 cm

Playing with value connotations related to the spatial positions, the intervention demonstrates that both center and periphery are moving and constructed categories related to the power structure.