Philip Davenport collaboration: refugee hostel, Berlin

THIS CHILD WISHES FOR THE LIGHT TO COME & THE DARK TO DISAPPEAR / FLEE 

GENAU WIR SIND WOGE = QUECKSILBER! DELPHINE!

YES, WE ARE WAVES = QUICKSILVER! DOLPHINS!

MIGRATION DER WALE = MIGRATION DER MENSCHEN / ABER WIR KÖNNEN NICHT MEHR IN UNSER SOMMER ZUHAUSE ZÜRUCK
MIGRATION OF WHALES = MIGRATION OF PEOPLE / BUT WE CANNOT RETURN TO OUR SUMMER HOMES

DAS IST DER BLICK AUS MEINEM KLEINEN FENSTER 
THIS IS THE VIEW FROM MY LITTLE WINDOW 

Philip Davenport/Deya Nemo

House without Walls: poster poems by refugee children in Berlin, made collaboratively with British visual poet Philip Davenport. This work was exhibited at Paul Schneider Hause in Berlin Oct-Dec 2017.

Exhibition in situ, Paul Schneider Hause, Berlin. Oct-Dec 2017

The drawings show a child's everyday, but with the sharpness of war punching through. A policeman with a truncheon hides in one corner of 'A normal day'. A mother walks through a field equally divided between trees and explosions. The "poster poems" have comments from adults in their community incorporated into the designs.Davenport also interviewed many older members of the community at Staakener Strasse, weaving in their accounts, in Arabic, English and German. The works, made in collaboration with Syrian designer Deya Nemo, are a gentle, sideways look at the human cost of war, subtle losses, including childhood itself. 

DIESES KIND TRÄUMT DAVON, NACH HAUSE ZURUCKZUKEHREN = ZURUCKZUKEHREN IN DIE KINDHEIT
THIS CHILD DREAMS OF RETURNING HOME = THIS CHILD DREAMS OF RETURNING TO CHILDHOOD

Designs Deya Nemo. Translations by Deya Nemo, Lisa Langer and Aurelie Maurin. Thanks to all at Gemeinschaftsunterkunft Staakener Straße, Barbara Caveng and Dachil Sado at Kunstasyl, The British Council.

EIN GANZ NORMALER TAG / FLUG
A NORMAL DAY / FLIGHT