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The
Voyage Home is a reflection on a search for home, a search coloured
by unique individual perceptions of those who embark on this journey.
Two people undergo a process of translocation from one country to
another together. Yet, without even realising it, they create their
own narratives within the experiences they shared, each having a
completely different perspective and understanding of what was going
on at that time.
It
is a deeply personal search as well as physical relocation from one
space to another. It is a search that is at once shared and
solitary.
Three
videos are projected large onto the walls of the gallery. First reveals the artist's father sharing a story about his
escape from communist Czechoslovakia to Australia, and his life and
relationships throughout this process. The second shows
his ex-wife sharing that same story told from her perspective. The
final projection is a shifting image - Australian and Czech
landscape, slowly merging into each other. In front of this
projection stands a fragile ladder built of balsa wood, connecting
the ceiling to the floor with highly reflective black perspex at each
end of the ladder. A symbolic journey is evoked as viewer gazes into
the dark perspex and sees the ladder continuing onwards and
disappearing into black void, a journey that never ends, the climb
for the ultimate happiness that cannot be found.
(Artist
Statement, Mariana Jandova, 2014)