Pos. 33
The Neighbor’s Garden: In the Name of Freedom, Center for Peripheries, 2022–ongoing
600 × 600 × 300 mm
Cans
Touching permitted.
The work uses everyday supermarket products — here, canned goods — as carriers of political narratives, turning packaging into its central visual and spatial medium.
The project examines neighbourly relations across different scales, from intimate, everyday encounters to geopolitical entanglements. Each label tells a story connected to specific foods, drawing on their cultural, historical and political contexts. Some narratives point to exchange and solidarity, while others highlight tensions or absurdities. In this iteration of the work, the selected labels are specifically oriented towards the theme of freedom within political relations — whether as justification, instrument, or objective.
The work questions how freedom is produced, distributed, and instrumentalised through everyday objects and global interdependencies.
Center for Peripheries is a Berlin-based collective working at the intersection of social research and spatial practice. Founded by artists from the Middle East, the Caucasus, and the Balkans, their work examines power structures and mechanisms of othering through interventions embedded in everyday life, making its political dimensions visible.
Pos. 33
The Neighbor’s Garden: In the Name of Freedom, Center for Peripheries, 2022–ongoing
600 × 600 × 300 mm
Cans
Touching permitted.
The work uses everyday supermarket products — here, canned goods — as carriers of political narratives, turning packaging into its central visual and spatial medium.
The project examines neighbourly relations across different scales, from intimate, everyday encounters to geopolitical entanglements. Each label tells a story connected to specific foods, drawing on their cultural, historical and political contexts. Some narratives point to exchange and solidarity, while others highlight tensions or absurdities. In this iteration of the work, the selected labels are specifically oriented towards the theme of freedom within political relations — whether as justification, instrument, or objective.
The work questions how freedom is produced, distributed, and instrumentalised through everyday objects and global interdependencies.
Center for Peripheries is a Berlin-based collective working at the intersection of social research and spatial practice. Founded by artists from the Middle East, the Caucasus, and the Balkans, their work examines power structures and mechanisms of othering through interventions embedded in everyday life, making its political dimensions visible.