Time-Busters: Escape!

“ESCAPE! is an artistic intervention on the subject of flight at the MQ Vienna. The idea came from the Austrian artist Deborah Sengl and is a reaction to the refugee crisis of 2015.

“The hopelessness and despair of countless people have shaken me deeply. Many in this country have shown their compassion and helped. Some others, however, have unfortunately reacted in a closed and empathic or even negative way to the stories of the fugitives. This behaviour has triggered a massive sadness in me. Escape! .

,Escape!‘ should not and cannot retell a real escape story. Rather, I would like to give the visitors an impression of the emotional exceptional situations that (are) happening to the fugitives. In this way, I hope to make the incomprehensible more accessible and thus to open the gaze, the mind and finally the heart to those whose fates may seem so strange to many.”