“The Peace Project Europe - an extraordinary achievement of different languages and communities who cultivate different cultures. Different people who live together in peace and have thus proven that it is possible to establish a common framework of human rights on a continent is as well as the whole world, are in a deep crisis. The current pandemic-state is increasingly calling the European Union into question. My light-installations in public space deal with basic questions of our community and want to set in motion a rethinking. It lies in our hands, whether we are in favor of a democratic Europe or a disintegrational process. Solidarity within and towards non-EU countries citizens, transparency, equality and a social, open and international Europe, were only some of the thoughts coming into my when I started to work on the project. It is time to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in, and in this world Europe can hopefully still become the prover- bial lighthouse. Let’s all participate in this, it’s about us.”

Borjana Ventzislavova places large-format neon lettering on the roofs and facades of the city’s central buildings: the train station, the city hall, and the Lower Aus- trian State Parliament (Landtagsschiff). The light installations are firmly connected to the function of the places on which they are mounted - for example, the lettering on the train station’s roof reads “Ihr Name ist Europa. Sie kam über das Meer.” (“Her name is Europa. She came overseas.”) focuses on migration as a place where transit crystallizes. Borjana Ventzislavova’s interventions challenge everyone who reads these sentences to find answers to questions about European identity, while at the same time making it clear that there are no easy answers. The handwriting- inspired typeface and the openness of the questions and statements charge the cityscape with “text vibration” and lend it a poetic character.