The paths led us to the chapel of Saints Cyril and Methodius, through a landscape that seemed to carry other landscapes within it. Specific yet familiar, these surroundings could just as well be elsewhere in the Balkans. From this mountain to Venice and the mosaics of San Marco, Cason’s research follows the traces through which Europe takes shape: materials, images and bodies crossing seas and borders; histories of displacement, refuge and exchange. A Europe whose imagined centre is inhabited by elsewhere, whose beauty holds the marks of other worlds.
Bringing together historical figures from three different periods, Cason speaks of the past as an unfinished demand, calling for recognition and action in every present moment. Revolution, in this sense, can begin with someone looking at the past and trying to repair what remains unresolved. The past continues to make demands on the present, asking us to recognise what happened and consider what we can still change. Every moment offers a possibility to respond—and it is precisely this response that carries revolutionary potential.
