‘The ROSE’ with Laris, Jamira & Han    Found fabric, knitted pieces    Installation & Poetry Audio    2023    Group Exhibition EXCHANGING PROTECTION    Transcultural Collaboration Program   Share Campus   Zurich University of the Arts   Zurich   Switzerland


The installation “The rose” created an illusionary space for visitors, where they imagine themselves traveling between different realities. It dealt with the sense of cultural distance and alienation that emerges from different individual realities and social surroundings. Laris BÄUCKER, Jamira ESTRADA, Jing HAN and Anh PHUONG created an interconnected experience of space and sound. A complex structure of fabrics and wool threads that moved parallel to each other, intertwined and strung together, creating an embodied sensation of entanglement configured the visual part of “The rose”.


The auditory part was a musical arrangement of three poems in different languages. Laying under “The rose” wearing headphones and emerging themselves in the fragmented construction of musical arrangement and poems the visitors could observe the suspended sculpture and move on the threshold of several realities and perceptions.
The group’s motivation for this work came from the urge to dive into each other’s different realities. A collective approach, individual moments and patience were crucial parts of their working process.



The work emphasized different levels of realities, that sometimes may connect or show as diametrically opposed daily lives. Protection here meant both respecting and understanding each other’s levels of reality, but it also meant to unsettle boundaries, find empathy, and even cherish conflict at certain moments.

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