Playground. Evji-Evji. Toun-Tounique.

Where to start dialogues that seem impossible at this moment?

When we were kids, we knew how to transform everything around us. Even the reality.

If we’d ever feel uncomfortable somewhere we could turn the blanket into our shield and transport into a different dimension, where we'd feel safe. We were the ones who’d make the rules.

We knew the secret language of toys, animals and all things around us.

Our mind had no sense of limits.

If we’d ever feel uncomfortable somewhere we could turn the blanket into our shield and transport into a different dimension, where we'd feel safe. We were the ones who’d make the rules.

But once we grew older our mind got trapped in various versions of realities, pasts and futures.

Shaped by fears and limits we forget that we still hold that power to change.

Welcome to the Playground, an exhibition by an art collective that showcases its first work with you, the “Evji-evji/toun-tounique” (home-home). Inspired by children’s boundless imagination and the blanket forts we all once used to create right in the living room of our parents.

Evji-Evji/Toun-Tounique is created by artists from countries bordering one another but divided by conflict. They are neighbors who know of one another only through the lens of propaganda, neighbors who cannot even be in the same room without provoking questions and hatred. Their every step towards one another has to be hidden. Their connection: silenced. Even their friendship can be seen as an act of rebellion. The current reality doesn't have any dimension where they could coexist.

But here, in evji-evji/toun-tounique, a space which they co-created and where we all have access to, they can do whatever they want. They make the rules.

Welcome to this dimension. A safe space where we can reimagine reality, play with the rules, and project our versions of the Futures on blank walls to just make them feel possible again.

Come in, join in and play with us.

But once you are out, let all you’ve seen here remain our secret.