Without Candies

Maria Gvardeitseva

Minsk, Belarus, 2019

Candy wrappers, Video interview

The installation is a room covered with thousands of candy wrappers. These are the leftovers of the winter-holidays-charity from people coming once a year to give sweets to children without families. The short movies projected around the space with the actual orphans talking about their experience in the orphan houses fill the empty wraps with meaning: no gift can replace a real bound. Nowadays, there are many opportunities to include a child into a family. Through her project Maria helps spectator to make the first step - seeing and acknowledgment of desperate need for love and attention of little lonely human beings.