Sanja Iveković

The “Bangkok Emergency House Project” is a third part of a work in progress which I started in 1998 under the title “Women’s House”. Conceived as an international project, “Women’s House” consists of site- specific installations based on the workshops with the women who are seeking refuge at a local shelter for women ( either because they have been victims of domestic violence or for some other reason).

The work in this exhibition was done thanks to the collaboration of the Bangkok Emergency House and eight women who accepted to work with me and write their stories for this project.

One of their stories:

I got the disease from my husband nine years ago. I have a child. He’s seven years old. It is my luck that he did not catch the disease. My husband has already passed away. The reason I came to live at this Emergency House was that some of my brothers, sisters and relatives thought me disgusting because of the virus. But some understood and they took good core of me as if I were a normal patient. That made me want to live longer. I hope there will be a vaccine that can cure this disease in the very near future.