About noon.
Thirty eight degrees and climbing.
A strong wind from the Atlantic, shifting sands.
I come upon a scene.
Twelve young men on the shore.
They don’t feel the needling of the glass-sharp grains on their skin.
With no words or shouted instructions, they know what they have to do.
Twelve to a net, that’s the rule.
Firm-footed, slowly and persistently they head towards the gentle desert slope.
Dignified, harmonised movements.
Awaiting them hard by, there is just a small and rusty truck. With ice and wages.
For a clean job.
Text: Amela Frankl
Proof-reading: Martina Fryda Kaurimsky
Postproduction: Miran Krčadinac
Videostill: Miran Krčadinac
Translation: Graham McMaster
Curator: Branko Franceschi
PK 22, Varaždin Municipal Museum, Program Something Else Gallery, Varaždin, 2021
The work PK 22 was co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia