As part of the 2025 edition of the Festival Proyector, curator Elisabeth Piskernik presents a selection of video works by Alina d’Alva Duchrow (Brazil), Mi Jung Shin (South Korea), Yasmine El Meleegy (Egypt), and Maria Hanl (Austria).

Entitled displaced realities, this curatorial proposal takes as its starting point Dove of Peace by Maria Hanl, a work that exposes the absurdity and manipulation inherent in official narratives. The selected artists examine how language and storytelling can be distorted, blurring collective memory and reshaping our perception of reality. They question the ways in which dominant forces—political, cultural, or economic—shape and impose narratives that structure shared history.

By confronting institutional accounts with individual perspectives, they reveal how selective storytelling can obscure, rewrite, or fragment truths, thereby influencing how history and identity are perceived.
Yet, realities—though often suppressed and pushed into the shadows—never vanish entirely. By scratching the surface, reopening archives, or reviving forgotten memories, hidden stories resurface, offering alternative or long-silenced truths.

Through the geographical and cultural diversity of the works presented, this selection underscores the universal urgency of reexamining dominant narratives. Each film challenges the authenticity of perceived realities while exposing the fragility of so-called truths.

This project is supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum in Madrid.

photo: Maria Hanl, Dove of Peace, video still, 2024