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Marcin Tas | Weselne buty | object (art) | unknown | 2017 | vis_00093

Rights held by: Marcin Tas | Licensed by: Marcin Tas | Licensed under: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International | Provided by: Marcin Tas – Private Archive

Marcin Tas | Weselne buty | object (art) | unknown | 2017 | vis_00093 Rights held by: Marcin Tas | Licensed by: Marcin Tas | Licensed under: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International | Provided by: Marcin Tas – Private Archive

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Rights held by: Marcin Tas | Licensed by: Marcin Tas | Licensed under: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International | Provided by: Marcin Tas – Private Archive

Description

My contact with the Roma is personal in character since I have been married to a Romani woman for over ten years. Together with her and our two sons we live among the members of the Roma of the Bergitka Roma group, in a small settlement in Czarna Góra on the border of Polish Spisz and Podhale. To make the art-piece ͞Wedding shoes͟ I used the pair of shoes that I wore on my wedding day, which bounded me physically and emotionally with the Roma. Originally, the shoes were made from brown leather but in the artistic process they were decorated with colourful, shiny ornaments. In this way, they acquired a stereotypical character but also gained symbolic traits because my relationship with the Roma is seen in the eyes of the non-Roma through the prism of clichés and mental shortcuts.

Marcin Tas (2017)

Details

übersetzer Titel
Wedding shoes
Country
Production
2017
Production Credits
Object Category
Dimensions
40 cm length
20 cm width
50 cm height
11 kg weight
Material
Technique
Object Number
vis_00093

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