Moldova (Republic of)

Within the space’s width, an ensemble of carpets, woven from the shared memory of many lands, hovers between floor and vault, suspended by drones whose low murmur disturbs the space’s stillness. Once instruments of surveillance and war, designed for control and destruction, these machines are reimagined as tools of rescue and liberation. The flying carpets recall the ancient Middle Eastern motif of bisat al-rih and the tales of The Arabian Nights, where the magical and the mystical open other ways of imagining movement and the crossing of borders.

This reorientation toward flight and fantasia is neither a refuge nor an escape from the ongoing war on life, but a way of making evident the power of imagining other possible exits. Collectively choreographing a space without borders, each rug opens onto a world of many worlds, where a cosmovision embedded in material culture—woven thread by thread—is reclaimed: from rugs as protective amulets against evil to their symbolism as carriers of abundance, fertility, gratitude to the earth, and the continuity of life. In a world of noise and dissonance, On the Thousand and Second Night whispers of a peace yet to come.