Mâna care taie

Alexandra Tatar spends time with her mother, who lives in Romania, during the pandemic by signing up as a harvest worker at an Austrian winery in autumn 2020. The resulting video work Mâna care taie reflects Tatar's own experiences and reveals imperialist power structures within Europe. The work uses a multi-layered collage of video footage, mobile phone videos, photographs, conversation recordings, soundscapes and an astute voice-over in her native language. It questions the hegemonic image of Austrian wine culture by altering landscape images and revealing hidden contexts of meaning.