In the process of facial creation through photo collages of their own portraits, german teenagers and refugees from Afghanistan and Syria find the opportunity to get to know each other using the constructive basis of idea sharing. They created new characters and IDs through blending the features of a German student, an Afghan teenager, a Syrian friend.
In this activity, there is no need to create a perfect new face; marks and mismatches are symbols of this intercultural merging and representative of the scars coming from personal experiences. The photographers slowly combine their stories in such a way as to arouse their curiosity and interest in each other’s life and personality.
Similarly to the game Exquisite Corpse, a magic story is collaboratively written, mixing participants’ emotions with their memories and imagination, ultimately conceiving a new European identity.
