You and I don't tend to have long discussion when we meet (installation)

The project consists in a mixed media installation (sound and photography) which explores the ideas of environment formed by listening and seeing (two of the senses of the legendary giant of Skopje) and our understanding of them.
It is a site-specific work and it was produced within the city of Skopje.
Trees, located around the areas where the 7 gates were (according to the Skopje legend), were photographed and their sonic environments recorded simultaneously.

Trees absorb the history - what is around them today?
They are often considered as a metonymy of nature - what kind of nature do tress represent in the city?

This work is about the dependence from the surrounding environment. How environment forms the way things are? How it forms the way we are?
Plants unlikely any other live organisms are not able to escape from the environment they happened to grow.
But being human beings and having the ability to move does not necessarily give us a possibility to move away from the environment we are in or from the environment we create. In that sense, people are like trees, the only difference is that people are able to change their environment. Giving the parallel between trees and people artists encourage the viewers to look and listen to what is happening around them, how it affects them and in what way.

This work is about the photographic image, which allows us to present the world in a certain way and, at the same time, it is about the message given through the sound. We can close our eyes and turn away - but we cannot escape from listening - it is always with us.