Where do we find this place we call "home"? Can it be a person? Or is it maybe a place? In Switzerland I have

the feeling that the mountains are waves in shock, as if someone had pressed the pause button.

Based on Herta Müller's essay "You can't belong to places" I bring together Canarian waves and Swiss mountains,

my two homes, creating a dialog between Switzerland and the Canary Islands, between waves and mountains

and snow and sea spray.

This is a cutout of the video Home, which originally includes ten pairs of waves and mountains.

 

 

Video, 2023

Voices: Marcus Signer and Helen Acosta

Technical Implementation: Lukas Matthys and Matthias Fitz

 

 

Translation of the Audio:

 

Why are you looking at me like that?

Don't tell me someone has promised you a place....

Come on.. admit it.. was it the mountain air...?

that cold, treacherous bitch...

No...

Don't trust the mountain air, you hear?

Why?

Before you realise it, becomes a wind...

A wind that whips and hurts the mountains...

You cannot belong to places... I am sorry