What is the significance of being a Balkan artist curating an exhibition of Balkan artefacts?
It is a pleasure and a problem. You are questioning yourself: are you ever going to be asked to do anything else? I am seen either as a refugee artist, or a Balkan artist. This is part of taxonomising of course. You hear someone’s accent and then you need to categorise them rather than just letting them be. It is not so important on some occasions, but for this particular exhibition, it was important that I had the knowledge of the area. Nela is reading her poetry in Norwich for Refugee Week on 21 June: www.writerscentrenorwich.org.
