BASE-ALPHA GALLERY

Veronika Pot - Great place, we loved it, thanks a lot

20.11 – 20.12.2025

In Great place, we loved it, thanks a lot, Veronika Pot explores how language and meaning shift. The title sounds warm and almost casual, like a phrase we recognize from tourist reviews and automated pleasantries. However, in a time marked by threat, division, and war, that same phrase takes on a bitter undertone. This series of photographs and viewing boxes plays with the tension between superficiality and seriousness.

The texts within the works function as traces or testimonies: fragments of voices throughout the history of war, violence, and uprooting. They are re-embodied, hollowed out, or infused with new meaning. For instance, the coded message “We will cut down the tall trees” from Radio Mille Collines in 1994 takes on a different meaning in the new context provided by Veronika. Thus, a poetic space emerges where empathy, seriousness, and irony coexist—where something as simple as “thanks a lot” suddenly carries weight.

Veronika's process revolves around these transformations of images and the discovery of new poetic spaces. The original image has often become unrecognizable, raising the question of the context in which it was created. They are landscapes, mountains, figures, and text fragments that Pot attempts to ‘re-see,’ ‘re-memorize,’ and ‘re-visualize.’ Ambiguity is at the core of Veronika Pot’s visual language.