Trust / trust

Quasi-documentary video/photography

The availability of the Internet and the possibility of connecting with the distant world made me decide to look at this chance - I found an online application that allows you to travel around the world and do something good, including guarding pets during the absence of their owners. I was interested in the opportunity to visit a given place in the world and simply - work in exchange for accommodation in a place offered by the owner. So far, I have made five trips - to Berlin, Dublin, Malta, Copenhagen and London.

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I would like to create a work about trust, relationships between carers, owners, and their animals, and also attention to social changes taking place on a micro-scale. The work is to show what my life and adaptation in a "borrowed" apartment looked like, how I got to know the animal, how I learned and cared for it, and what are the mutual boundaries of the three complementary worlds.

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„Who drank from my cup? Who slept in my sheets? Who used my towel?” The video presents my basic household activities, however, using the objects and space of "strangers", in a way violating their private space. My actions show my daily habbits, adapting to someone's private home, and then to the culture in which I found myself, to the country I visited.

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