DOMINIK HEILIG - GOOD BLESS INDIA
DOMINIK HEILIG
GOOD BLESS INDIA
16. April - 16. Mai 2015
Recordings from South-East India - A comic report. The “Comic”, some would also call it Graphic-Novel, is a poetic and at the same time documentary travel report. At the beginning of 2012, Dominik Heilig spontaneously travels with pen and sketchbook in his luggage together with the Moscow photographer Aida Vardaniannach to Tamil Nadu in South-East India. There he gets to know the aid organization BLESS and its activities on site. New industries, bureaucracy and natural disasters burden the country. They are the windmills with which Anthony Samy, a native Tamil and founder of BLESS, struggles. The contact came about through a friend of Aida's, who was already researching there on behalf of OXFAM. Anthony Samy showed them their projects, such as the Open-School, the Bicycle-Fish-Seller Program, the Ambalayam Women's Shelter and a water project.
The drinking water problem and the environmental pollution there occupied Dominik the most, both in thought and in drawing. The fact that their stay in India had nothing to do with the typical spiritual yoga trips, but rather (not exclusively) took place in the world of Christian minorities, away from the tourist attractions, was a surprising moment, from whose impressions a separate, rather poetic, chapter emerged.
