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.