DANIEL DJAMO

I LIVED WELL UNDER CEAUSESCU, SAID THE HORSE

Let’s say that I am playing normally. When I get back home I’ll find in the fridge some sour cream and some bread. If I’ll wear the horse mask, I’ll find a piece of meat as well. What do you have to say now? Shouldn’t I put on the horse mask?

Director and visual artist from Bucharest, with exhibitions at the Kunsthaus of Dresden and at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in “Unicorn Tales” Daniel Djamo develops  a consideration about nomadism, about an instability that makes your own portrait unstable: with the excuse of describing the migration in Austria of Romanians, who reinvent themselves as absurd street accordionists with horse heads, recording their frustrations and little moments of happiness, Djamo suggests that the context is liquid and his story must adapt; it’s the right time for the author-artist to throw away the rubber horse head and try to redefine himself.

 UNICORN TALES
Austria-Romania / 2015 / 63′ / Documentary