The exhibition “Family Welfare” highlights the problematic aspects of replacing children from socially weak families. This practice is rather widespread in the Czech Republic even despite the proofs verified in practice, e.g. that the result of such an intervention is, in most cases, the total disintegration of the affected family, the disturbed natural emotional relations of the given child and the serious problems in the process of his re-socialization. The number of children growing up in anonymous and, in result, pathological conditions of the welfare institutes in the Czech Republic is quite alarming (while the maximum age of each 60 of 10,000 children is 3 years). At present, more than half of the children is replaced to the institutional care due to the unfavorable social situation of their families, and one third of the children is replaced for health and social reasons while significant percentage of the total number of children handed over to the institutions are of Roma origin. In majority, the case is thus children from poor families instead of abandoned, orphaned, maltreat and abused infants. These children then simply become “hostages” of the state administration.
The aim of the presented works is to reflect the above-mentioned issue, to critically evaluate the status quo, to point out at the unfortunate way of how the official power affects family relationships and, in broader context, to underline the subject of an (in)complete family in political, social and cultural context.
Exhibiting artists: Darina Alster (CZ), Radovan Čerevka (SK), Pavlína Fichta Čierna (SK), Milena Dopitová (CZ), Kateřina Fojtíková (CZ), Laďa Gažiová (SK), Anežka Hošková (CZ), Shlomi Yaffe (IL), Gabriela Jurkovičová (CZ), Lenka Klodová (CZ), Jana Kochánková (CZ), Tomáš Makara (SK), Tamara Moyzes (SK), Tanja Ostojić (SER/DE), Pavla Sceranková (SK), Michal Šiml (CZ), Jana Štěpánová (CZ), TOY_BOX (CZ), Silvie Vondřejcová (CZ), Richard Wiesner (CZ), Dušan Zahoranský (SK), Kateřina Závodová (CZ)