Marta Simeckova

In her project, Marta Simeckova attempted to search for the “inner sense” of the enlargement of Europe. Together with her colleague, Andrea Pukova, editor of the Slovak monthly review Anthropos and of the Slovak daily Sme, she collected a series of interviews with people from Western and Central Europe. This was intended to create a colorful mosaic of people who represent the Europe of today as a “mental body.” The questions raised by her project center around the perception of Europe: What is the inner meaning of a common Europe, of the cohabitation of Western Europe and the edge, of the center and the periphery? Who are the Europeans, and, moreover, who are the “new others“? The ultimate goal of the project was to discover what Europe means from the specific perspective of its periphery.