23/07/2022
Animation video (infinite loop, mute) for Found in Translation and Helmhaus Zurich .
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“In her confident attempt to rebuild her life in Switzerland, Jalashree Shrikande is also confronted with many obstacles, rejections, disregard and doubts. Moreno Tuttobene presents Shrikhade's story and feelings in a simple and graphic way, symbolically in black and white: apparent repetitions and circular motifs in a silent animation film without end.”
Text taken from the exhibition catalogue “Found in Translation/Salon der Gegenwart,”Helmhaus Zürich, 2022
The initiative of the "Found in Translation" project was also brought to the Helmhaus by the association, which promotes intercultural exchange. The project brings together eleven people who have moved to Zurich with eleven cultural workers who live here. The initiators each form a tandem between a narrator who has moved here and a cultural worker who lives here. The project serves the dialogue between both sides, the understanding, the discussion and the broadening of horizons between the cultures. On a level of empathy, trust and joy, people are to be brought closer to the other, prejudices are to be reduced.
In a first phase, one side of the tandem, people with migration experience, tells stories from their lives and records them in a kind of writing workshop. This text then serves the other side of the tandem, the cultural workers, as inspiration for a work that is created in close exchange with the "narrators". Finally, the third phase is dedicated to linking with the audience. In events, the participants reflect on their experiences in tandem and exchange ideas with the audience. Finally, the aim is to "find each other in translation": in a common language, the language of empathy and encounter through art.
