In the video European Blues, a group of young people draw at a table—a staged 'common room'. A voice recalls their repatriation from the USSR to Poland in the 1990s. This narration, an edited fragment of a true testimony, takes us back to their family history shaped by changing borders and their crossings. Watching the silent characters, we can wonder about more personal borders, closer ones, between individuals sitting at a shared table.

Cristina Ferreira-Szwarc, born in 1990 in Lisbon, Portugal, lives and works in Poznan, Poland. She obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Fine Arts of Poznań. She works with installation, painting and drawing on themes of foreignness, displacement, memory and alienation. She is a co-founder of the Portuguese-Polish residency program ‘Unsolicited Works'. She is also a past artist-in-residence at KVOST Berlin and BJCEM (Milan), among others, and a past grantee of Poznań. She has exhibited in Poland, Portugal, Germany, Italy, and Sweden.

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V videu Evropski blues vidimo skupino mladih, ki rišejo za mizo – v inscenirani 'skupni sobi'. Glas se spominja repatriacije iz ZSSR na Poljsko v devetdesetih letih 20. stoletja. Ta naracija, fragment resničnega pričevanja, nas popelje nazaj v družinsko zgodovino, ki jo je oblikovalo spreminjanje meja in njihovo prečkanje. Ob opazovanju nemih likov se lahko sprašujemo tudi o bolj osebnih mejah med posamezniki, sedečimi za skupno mizo.

Cristina Ferreira-Szwarc, rojena leta 1990 v Lizboni na Portugalskem, živi in ​​dela v Poznanu na Poljskem. Magistrirala je iz slikarstva na Univerzi za likovno umetnost v Poznanu. Ukvarja se z instalacijami, slikarstvom in risbo na temo tujstva, razseljevanja, spomina in odtujenosti. Je soustanoviteljica portugalsko-poljskega rezidenčnega programa Unsolicited Works. Med drugim je bila rezidenčna umetnica pri KVOST Berlin in BJCEM Milano ter štipendistka mesta Poznań. Razstavljala je na Poljskem, Portugalskem, v Nemčiji, Italiji in na Švedskem.