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Martin Papcún

  • Slovakia (b. 1979 in Levice)
  • Currently in Jílové u Prahy, Czech Republic.
  • Martin Papcun explores private relationships with public spaces and the spaces we inhabit, in works both monumental and miniature. His work is focused on relationships, definitions of private and public space, and the gaps between them.

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Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

  • 2002
  • balloon diameter: 3.5m
  • A hot-air balloon was launched in the Sahara Desert on the border of Morocco and Mauritania, and left to go on its own pilgrimage.
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    Pilgrimage, a site-specific installation/ Morocco | 2002

A hot-air balloon was launched in the Sahara Desert on the border of Morocco and Mauritania, and left to go on its own pilgrimage. The project was intended to reflect our life journeys as human beings, our pilgrimages. During our lives, it happens that we walk alone, or meet someone and share life together, or separate, or die. Each of us is on a journey. The intention was to release 1,000 balloons from many different places in the desert, and let them migrate across the central desert, to follow their own destinies.


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