DOMINIK HEILIG - GOOD BLESS INDIA
DOMINIC HEILIG
GOOD BLESS INDIA
16 April - 16 May 2015
Records from South-East India - A comic reportage. The "comic", some would call it a graphic novel, is a poetic and at the same time documentary travelogue. At the beginning of 2012 Dominik Heilig will spontaneously travel to Tamil Nadu in South-East India with pen and sketchbook in his luggage together with the Moscow photographer Aida Vardaniannach. There he will get to know the aid organisation BLESS and its activities on site. New industries, bureaucracy and natural disasters are a burden on the country. They are the windmills with which Anthony Samy, a Tamil-born and founder of BLESS, struggles. The contact came through a friend of Aida's who was already doing research there on behalf of OXFAM. Anthony Samy showed them their projects, such as the open school, the bicycle fish sellers program, the women's shelter Ambalayam and a water project.
The drinking water problem and the pollution of the environment occupied Dominik the most, both in his thoughts and in his drawings. The fact that her stay in India had nothing to do with the typical spiritual yoga journeys, but rather with the fact that it took place (not exclusively) in the world of Christian minorities, away from the tourists, was a surprising moment, from the impressions of which a separate, rather poetic, chapter emerged.
