Max Brugger

in his work "welcome" max brugger opens up a pictorial space that provides an insight into his personal involvement with european refugee policy.

the five diptychs are an excerpt from his long-term examination of the topic of fleeing and migration and contrasts different weightings in the willingness to help people on the run. the simple composition deconstructs the moral concepts of large parts of society and european refugee policy and contrasts them. 
as an example in one photograph, we see aid supplies that have to be thrown away. an overflow of aid within hours and days that can no longer be organized. the handling of the arriving people who are currently fleeing from the war in ukraine shows what is possible if one is willing to help. unbureaucratic and fast. 
the opposite a photograph taken on the mediterranean sea off the libyan coast shows life saving rings floating on the sea. the treatment of people who have to flee across the mediterranean shows that refugees are not the same as refugees.
the clarity of the photograph speaks for itself. it opens up new spaces for thought in dialogue with the image, which was taken in korczowa on the polish-ukrainian border.

max brugger's statement on the current refugee policy invites reflection on structural racism and humanitarian aid.