Nothing passes clean
when the current enters us
by Jana Gertz, Latvia/Estonia
Some places don’t speak loudly, instead they breathe, they wait. To hear them, you have to be still.

The project explores the relationship between human and place through the persistent, shifting presence of the Danube. Without personal ties to the region, the artist immersed herself in quiet observation along the riverbanks, letting the landscape shape her inner experience.

Combining found objects, photography, and experimental printing techniques, she constructs a poetic visual language that captures the layered memory and mutual influence between the river and those who live beside it. The Danube here is not a backdrop, but an active force — a witness, a shaper, and a carrier of invisible time.

This is not a documentary approach, but an invocation: the work aims to reveal a landscape of entanglement, where human and natural histories are inseparable. It invites reflection on how we inhabit and are inhabited by the places around us.
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