Migration Museum Gdynia, PolandProject description
Project Poster
In this live collaborative art performance, artist Pablo Cabrera Ferralis invites visitors to reflect on the idea of home through personal memories. Guests are asked to share a photo and a story about the place they call home during a private video call with the artist, who is working from his studio in Germany. As they talk, Pablo creates a unique drawing based on the guest's memory — a handmade souvenir that will later be mailed to them as a gift.
The process is quiet and intimate, yet broadcast live (without sound) as a way to share the creative act. The resulting artwork becomes a symbol of personal past, present reflection, and future continuity — a bridge between memory and belonging. This project values the emotional landscapes we carry and celebrates the power of storytelling, art, and dialogue in times of change.
Some Results
I. Main Concept: Memores from home
This artistic project works around the idea of the memories: the retrospection we have today from our past and the place we called home. This projects main goal is to reflect on the question: Which place can I call home? Do I have a clear image from that home? The memories we are making today, remembering and talking about the past, will be also a memory in our future, and maybe also, memory from a place that also may be called home.
II. Complementary concepts: Time / Cycles of change / Moments of pause / Continuity / Building the future
Arriving to the new homeland is hard and challenging. After this rush of emotions, the guest can take a moment of pause to remember the origins and share the memories and images from home with a total stranger: the artist. The guest are getting a personal memory, a souvenir made specially for them, from their personal home, from their own past, their own home. In that way putting value on tha memory and getting them as a gift in the near future. The cycles of this changes are conceptualized by the Artist in this project, producing with the guest a symbol of their own past and giving them directly into their hands, made it in the immediate present to help them building a future without forgetting the past. A part of the difficult process of migration and integration in a new place is also the exercise of taking the past, the present and the future as a continuity of images that are being created and modified from our remembrance constantly.
III. Why is this a Collaborative work performance
The Artists work in this project is to plan a set up where the collaboration can take place between him and a guest, which is a stranger who doesn't have to have any artistic competences whatsoever. The Artist will put his technical know-how in this process, but in every session, the Meaning of the artwork, why is this image important, why means so much to someone, is the input of the guest. Without guest, this will be a simple exercise without meaning, and without the artist, it will be no artwork and no collaboration.
