Nomad: WOMEN ON THE MOVE

2009-01-23T16:22:00.000-08:00

INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL CULTURE EXCHANGE
Einladung Zur Vernissage
Nomad: women on the move

Samstag, den 21 Februar 2009
18.30 Uhr - Open end
In MITTELSTR. 14- STUTTGART

Mit den Künstlerinnen:

Cristina Fernandez, Spanien

Dorothea Fleiss, Rumänien/Deutschland

Teresa Puig, Spanien/ Norwegen

Elizabeth Ross, Mexiko

Kurator: ■Dorothea Fleiss

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Öffnungszeiten: nach telefonische Vereinbarung 00491727321550

Nomad: Women On the Move

Collaboration between Cristina Fernandez, Dorothea Fleiss, Teresa Puig and Elizabeth Ross
Exhibition Openning 2009 February 21- on NA-H- VISION Institute for International Culture Exchange Stuttgart

Through video, photos, audio materials, and objects, these artists will research in the cities where they live among the many women who are affected by migration.
They leave their land, their families, their cultural roots and face an usually hard welcome in those rich promiseland nations.

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Here, There and Everywhere:
Anticipating the Art of the Future
Nomad: Women on the move
A project by artists Elizabeth Ross (MEXICO) and Teresa Puig (SPAIN/NORWAY), Dorothea Fleiss (GERMANY/ROMANIA) and video journalist Cristina Fernández (SPAIN)
In one side, women from poor countries have to migrate to find a way of survival. They leave their land, their family their cultural roots and face a usually hard welcome in those rich promiseland nations. They serve and take care of the fragile part of the families: their children, their eldest. They are allowed to their homes to clean and water their plants, to cook and be sure the families who hire them live comfortably. They work long days and earn some money. And learn other ways and words and tastes, and acquire new habits.
In the other side, women stay alone trying to keep family and home working without the male support, as all men have migrated to the north looking for a way to survive. There are complete communities where the only men are children and the eldest who are cared by the women left behind. They clean the house, walk to get water to cook and work the lands. They re-create a different way of life, being mothers and providers at the same time. When the husband visits, they bring alien ways, and words and tastes and habits.
Women come and go, stay and grow. Women sustain the world.
We want to work on this theme through a video, photo, audio, object installation, researching in the cities we live in among the many women who are affected by migration.
Migration is creating a completely new globalized woman.
Muslim women who try to find their life inserted in a complete different environment as Norway. American, African, Eastern European women who arrived into Barcelona to find a living and turning the city into a melting pot, All the Eastern Europe women –from Romanian to Turkish, that has chosen Germany as a nurturing land. The Mexican peasant women that decide to risk and cross the river to find a completely different way of life and those who stay alone at home with no men to support. All these women who are transforming their lives and cultures are the mothers of a new humanity. Borders become obsolete, globalization has many faces, the future is unpredictable.
This project will allow us to learn more about ourselves as individual women, our own process as immigrants, as well as have a broad perspective of the globalization itself in its many faces. In particular, we will learn about the position of women immigrants in a foreign country, where such women have had to dramatically change their lives in order to find a place for them. We are willing to collaborate because we share interests and friendship, but also because it will allow us to learn a new way of solidarity among women through art.
We haven’t secured all specific venues yet, but we will show the installation in Barcelona, Spain, Sandnes, Norway, in Stuttgart, Germany, in Romania and in the Contemporary Art Museum in Morelia, Michoacán.
We all have fell in love with this project.
identity labour transformation nostalgia
finding strength
memory nourishment risk
lose sincretism explotation
education roots
mother adventure
Elizabeth Ross, Teresa Puig, Cristina Fernández, Dorothea Fleiss
C r i s t i n a
F e r n á n d e z
Barcelona, Spain
BA Information Science, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.
1994-2005, Works as reporter for BTV - Barcelona Televisión. Has been 30’ and 60’ Documentary director, some titles are "Barcelona, 1939", "Sert, Barcelona anys 30", "El sommni de Ricard" and "Melodies Búlgares", among many others.
1989-93 she is a reporter for Televisión Española "Linea 900" program, and at the same time a journalist for Radio Nacional De España and Europa Press.
Has been a freelance program maker for Televisión de Catalunya, Canal Plus and Televisión Española, and made freelance documentaries as"16 cases i un molí ", for Televisió de Catalunya, and "Marimba Mercedaria" filmed in México.
She has been a Postgrade teacher in Creative Documental and Reporting for Television.
1998 Televisió de Catalunya Special Award, in the Festival Internacional de cine y vídeo de mediambiente de Gavà with "Els marges de les glòries".
1999, Awarded first prize in the 1st Ciutat Vella Video Contest, with "Volver a Santo Domingo".
2004, participates in "la Solaina de Piloño" Artists Gathering in Galicia 2005, is a long-distance invited artist to identidades.02, in Morelia, México, with "aigua-augia". a video artwork.
2006-07, Televisión d'Hospitalet Director.
Now she runs a program for TVE called "Repor".
She is a member of 5célula arte y comunidad AC, an artists international collective.

T e r e s a P u i g
1971,Terrassa. Barcelona
Artistic Background
2006 MA Fine Art, UWIC, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, United Kingdom. Preparing artwork digitally for screenprinting. Londonprintstudio, London, United Kingdom.
2004 BA Visual (Arts First Class Hons) University of Gloucestershire. U K.
2003 Printmaking. Fundacio Pilar Juncosa i Joan Miro a Mallorca, Spain
2000 Painting I & II, Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain.
Artistic Residences & conferences
2005 Karl Hofer Gesellschaft & Universitat der Kunste, Berlin, Germany.
2005 Universidad Nacional Autónoma México. Mexico
2005 Escuela Nacional Superior Autonoma de Bellas Artes del Peru, Lima. Peru
2005 Kunstforum Schloβ, Eichhofen. Germany
Bibliography
2005 Fachadas, Poblette S. Ed., Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, pp. 51, 101
2005 Discurso Visual - Digital Magazine - Cenidiap, April-Juny, n. 4, Section Diversa Creadores, Author E. Bartra
Selected Exhibitions & awards
2008 La Ciudad Condenada en el Desierto Maldito, Sala Muncunill, Terrassa, Barcelona (Solo Exhibition)
2007 Høstutstillingen 07, Stasjon K, Sandnes. Norway
2007 Klaipeda Gallery, Lithuania
Alytus Museum, Lithuania
2006 Remembrance, Universidad SEK, Segovia (Solo Exhibition)
MA Final show, UWIC, University of Wales Institute Cardiff. United Kingdom.
2005 18th International Art forum, Eichhofen. Germany. (Solo Exhibition)
Día De Los Muertos - Rocking Horse Cafe. New York. United States.
Frauen Museum, Bonn. Germany.
2004 To Let Gallery, Cheltenham, United Kingdom. (Solo Exhibition)
3Fetus. 2006
Print
Stroud District Council, Stroud. United Kingdom.
2003 Locations, Blackfriars Priory, Gloucester. United Kingdom.
2002 Belter, Newcastle upon Tyne. United Kingdom.
2001 University Gallery, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne. United Kingdom.
2000 La Posada del Marqués, Carrizo de la Ribera, Leon. (Solo Exhibition)
Galeria d’art Arxiu Tobella, Terrassa,Barcelona. (Solo Exhibition)
Online
www.teresapuig.com
http://eyeseverywhere.wordpress.com/
http://my.opera.com/enlacesatspace/blog/
http://www.cosega.org/GaleriaWebSenPapeis/index.htm
www.stasjon-k.com
Teresa Puig creates work that explores the issues of memory and mortality, inspired by the socio-political situation in countries affected by violence, economic instability or abuse of human rights.
globally. Her work is a metaphoric and poetic response to violence and injustice experienced
Untitled, 2005
Paper and flowers. Shöneweide, Berlin

"Recollected Souls", 2004
Fabric, thread, hair, wax and personal objects
"Remembrance", 2006
Prints on plaster
Segovia (Spain)

Memorandum, 2004,
Print on plaster

Screams of the desert
Prints on plaster, objets
UWIC, Cardiff

Four hundred names and dates
UWIC, Cardiff

D o r o t h e a F l e i s s
(compressed CV)
Born in Romania, lives in Stuttgart, Germany
Fine Arts Education
1996 -2003
-The Art Institute, Filderstadt, Painting, with Ena Lindenbauer and with Albrecht Weckman
-The Art Institute, Stuttgart, Painting, with Prof. Schlegel
Fine Arts Teachings
2008 - Visiting Professor, IB Euro-Caucasian University Tbilisi, Georgia
2007 - Lecturer, Medical University of Stuttgart, Germany
International Federation of Medical & Creative Pedagogic Therapy
-Lecturer- Facultad des Artes- Universitad de Cuenca (UNIVERSITY CUENCA)Ecuador
- Lecturer IB University Berlin, Germany
2006 - Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Calw, Germany
- Lecturer Kendlimajor Academy, Nagykanizsa, Hungary
2005 - Associate Professor, University of Oradea, Romania
2004 -visiting professor, College of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
-visiting Lecturer, Boston College Fine Arts Department and Northeaster University's
Department of Visual Studios (with a visit to MIT's Office of the Arts)
2003 -visiting professor, Art Department International Academy „ Greci Marino"
-visiting professor Inner Mongolian University, Art. Dep. Huhhot, Inner Mongolia
Grants and Awards
German Representative:
- 10th Bienale de CUENCA Ecuador 2007
- 8th International Book Art Festival – TIME – Lodz, Poland
- BOOK ART Exhibition in SEOUL South Korea
- E.U. Cultural Council Grant – "Orient Gallery" Amman- Jordan
-International Book Biennale -Année int. L S SENGHOR-Senegal
-Special Guest at a pavilion dedicated to celebrities of international art movement in the Cairo International Biennale 10th Session Egypt
- "HONOURABLE MENTION"- National Museum - Accra/Ghana
- Scholarship the Salzburg Academy, Painting at Jacobo Borges
- Scholarship „International Artist Colony"Baia- Mare, Romania
Biennales since 1998 selection:
2007 - 7th International Biennale of Cuenca, Ecuador
- International Art- Book Biennale, Arts Centre, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
2006 - 10th International Biennale of CAIRO, Egypt
International Book Biennale -Année int. L S SENGHOR-Senegal
2005 - Biennale 3000 San Paolo Brazil
- XI Biennale Guadalupe Mexico
2004 - Imagining the Book II. Intern. Biennale, Alexandria, Egypt
2nd Seoul International Book Arts Fair –Seoul, -South Korea

Personal Exhibitions /selection
2008 - Art Museum, Kawagoe, Japan
- Art Museum in Rabat, Morocco
- Gallery Kemboury, Dakar, Senegal
- Rivne, Lviv, Kiev- Ukraine
- IB International University Berlin, Germany
- Bibliotheca Metropolitana Bucharest Romania
2007 - Yume Gallery, Tokio, Japan
- Art Museum Baia- Mare, Romania
- Bilbliothek Centrale de Metz, France in collaboration with Rodica Drachincescu (writer)
- Four artists in Kathmandu -Nepal Art Council Gallery- Kathmandu NEPAL - with Shyam Lal Shrestha (Nepal), Suzlee Ibrahim ( Malaysia) and Shamina Anam (Bangladesh)
2006 - Gallery RV53, Metz- France
- NAHVISION Institute for International Culture Exchange, Stuttgart, Germany
- Teranova- Festival de performance Poetiques en Lorraine, France- Gallery Schmidt de Metz with Rodica Dranghincescu
- Gallery "Miron Druout" Paris, France
- Heidelberger Rathaus- Town Hall of Heidelberg, Germany
2005 - Gallery NAHVISION, Stuttgart, Germany
- Forum German -Roman Stuttgart e. V, Germany
- Museum of Art, Bitrita- Nasaud, Romania
- Jorge Hernandez Community Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Trans-Cultural Exchange, Boston, USA
2004 - Gallery „H. Kohllmann", Vienna, Austria
- NAHVISION- Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
- "Gelage Nachts mit Su Dung Po" with VOLKER BRAUN, Berlin, in „Les Arcades" Paris, Frankreich
- "HELIOS" Gallery of Artist Union, Timisoara, Romania
- CNU- Museum of Art, BEIJING, China
2003 -Inner Mongolian Museum of Art, Hu He Hao Te, China
- Art Museum, Baia- Mare, Romania
- NAHVISION- Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
2002 - Gallery "C. Jourdan" Lyon, France
- Gallery "A. Lubelski", New York
- "Haus der Heimat e.V" Nürnberg, Germany
2001 - Gallery Linhong Salzburg, Austria
-"Artists Centre", Bombay, India
2000 -Kunstforum, Taxham, Austria
-Gallery Gruber, Krems, Austria
1999 - Gallery "Pfardestahl" Aardenburg , Holland
- Mü-Terem" Galerie, Debrecen, Hungary
- Art Museum Baia- Mare, Romania
-Donauhalle, Ulm Germany
1998 - Art Museum, Satu-Mare, Romania
1997 - „ Donauhalle" Ulm, Germany
Participation on more than 50 Personal exhibitions since 1996

Participation on more than 180 group exhibition since 1996
Works in private and public collections
South America, North America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe
Memberships:
- IAA (International Association of Arts) UNESCO, Paris, France
-Berufsvereinigung der Bildenden Künstler Österreichs, Landesverband Steiermark, Graz, Austria
- Württembergischer Kunstverein (Artists Ass.) Stuttgart, Germany
- Korean Bookarts Association, Seoul, Korea
- A.D.A.P.I. International Artists Ass., Buenos Aires, Argentina
- A.C.E.P. Associazione Autori Compositori i Editori, Rimini, Italy
- "d.f.e.w.a." Stuttgart, Germany
- TANSSIGNUM, Paris, France
- European-Liaison "TransCultural Exchange" Boston, USA

e l i z a b e t h r o s s
A self trained artist in as many disciplines as she can put her hands/intellect/body/technology on, she works from her need to produce/induce change, as a utopian guerrilla. One of her main interests lay on the multiple layers of identity, her own and the others’. She comes from clay and feels comfortable working with digital means as well as land art, performing ritual axions as well teaching, lecturing and hold
She founds and directs 5célula, an organization that links art and communities. Also founds I d e n t i d a d e s, an international residency/encounter aimed on relate art, street, environment, memory, community and politics together.
ONE WOMAN EXHIBITIONS
2006 Corazón abierto –qué cosa es el amor, Galería Bola Santa, Morelia
Nos queremos vivas. Comisión de los Derechos Humanos, Morelia
Unter rot: YA BASTA!, Kunstmeile Krems. Krems an der Donau, Austria
Rot identität, Basement, Wien, Austria
2005 Ley Lines, Coed Hills Rural Art Space, South Wales, Uk
2004 Possible women, Possible Worlds. Installations and Ritual Actions in European Tour (Wales, Spain, Germany, Helvetia, Holland)
Photography, Civil Organizations House, Morelia
Journey Tales: Earth. Installation, Universidad Michoacana
Notlallo. Indiana University, USA
Journey Tales: Water
Journey tales: Air. installations. Centro Cultural Universitario, Morelia, Mich.
2003 Journey Tales: Fire, first of 4 Journey Tales installations
2002 Notlallo: my body, my earth. Michoacan Museum, Morelia, Mexican Institute, San Antonio, TX. USA. -Installation and performance.
Sesame. Uruapan, Mich.
2001 elizabethross.mx,retrospective. XIII International Music Festival
Sesame.
Naked White. La Bola Santa Gallery. Morelia, Mich.
Journey. The Gallery, México City.
1999 Translated. The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts.Canada.
In Diana’s hands/Notlallo. Contemporary Art Museum, Morelia,
Moon Stones. The Gallery, México DF.
1998 City on the way. Mexican Consulate at El Paso, Tx. USA
Road of Memory Revisited. Michoacán Masters Gallery, Morelia,
Three cane: clay and maize. QuadroArte Gallery, Morelia, Mich.
Three cane: the word, performance
1997
Road of Memory. ExColegio Jesuita Cultural Center, Patzcuaro,

Born in México City,
lives in Morelia, Michoacán
Elizabeth Ross ceramic sculpture, Museum of Western Cultures, Colima City.
1993 Profound City, itinerant installation, traveling throughout Mexico until 1996
1991 Double Spring, in my own gallery at Valle de Bravo, Edomex
1990 Woman: a cosmogony, Cultural Centre, Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
GROUP SHOWS AND PROJECTS
2009 Nomad, women on the move. Barcelona, Sandnes, Norway, Morelia, Stuttgart, Romania
your documents please. GALÉRIA Z, Bratislava, Slovakia.
2008 your documents please. The Museum of Arts & Crafts-Itami-shi & Zaim, Yokohama Japan. 2B Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Festival de arte experimental Maravatío
Identidades.04
2007 4ª SELAI organizer in México
Black and White, Clay Festival. Galería BU, San Miguel de Allende, Gto.
Guapamacataro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology, nacional productor and AIR
Find the net – kunstgruppe GOTTLIEBE – Galicia, Spain, Herne, Germany
eyeseverywhere a collective international photographic project on line: eyeseverywhere.wordpress.com
2006 Breathing Ground, International Art Show, Coed Hills Rural Art Space, South Wales, Uk
Paricutin Land Art Festival
2005 Segunda Semana Latinoamericana del Arte Independiente,
XII Xuntanza, Museo Don Ramón Mª Aller, Lalin, Galicia, Spain
My space, artists curate artists, basement, Wien, Austria
Agoriad, Galeri, Caernarfon, Wales.
2004 One Earth, Soil exchange. Paris-the World
2004-05 Tiles Proyect, destination: the world, Washington, Boston, New York, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, Chinchón, Finland, Romania
2004 VII Xuntanza A Solaina de Piloño, Galicia, Spain
Kunst auf dem Weg, Rechberghausen, Germany
Identidades. Morelia, Mich.
2003 Foescam Laureates. ExColegio Jesuita, Pátzcuaro,
EntreTrópicos. Managua, Nicaragua
4 women –installation. Contemporary Art Museum, Morelia,
Wyndham City Contemporary Art Prize. Merribee, Australia
2002
Foto2002 . Ruta 2 , Morelia, Mich
Ego and Los creadores del Acervo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
2000 Sólo un Guiño, Palacio del Arzobispado, México, D.F.
1999 De la Misma Tierra, Encuentro Nacional de Arte en Cerámica, Mty,
Contemporary Mexican Ceramic Sculpture, travelling show around Ireland: Tig Fili Gallery, Cork. The Hunt Museum, Limerick. Basement Gallery, Dundalk. The George Moore Society Gallery, Mayo. Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford. American College, Dublin. Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford.
1998 Solo un guiño, escultura mexicana en cerámica. Palacio de los Descubrimientos, ExpoLisboa 98. Centro Cultural de México en París, France. Galway Arts Centre, Ireland.
II Bienal de Arte en cerámica, Centro Cultural Alfa, Mty,
I Bienal Olga Costa de Pintura y Escultura, Museo Chávez Morado, Guanajuato. Pinacoteca de Nuevo León, Monterrey.
1995 Arte del Momento. Brasil-Cuba-México, La Habana, Cuba.
Cántaro de Barro, homenaje a Guillermo Bonfil Batalla. Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, México D.F.
1992 Ceramistas, Galería Ross.
1990 Nutopía en homenaje a Lennon, Polyforum Siqueiros.
Solo PROJECTS
2007 death is a lie – Plaza de mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
identidades.03 Galicia-Michoacán
Muro de besos contra el odio /a wall of kisses against hate –Spain, Morelia, Montevideo, Buenos Aires….
2006 Her/self awareness, working with women. Michoacán
lebesbaum. Krems, Zurich, Rechberghausen, Zihuatanejo, Maravatío, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, New York….
The talk Piece. Krems, Zürich, Zell, Maravatío…
Pata de Perro, Krems, Zürich, Zell, Vilagarcía, Dublín, NY…
2005 Identities.02 /Identity and Water.
Imagined Water, Our Left Water. Identidades
2004 Possible worlds, possible women, European tour
Virtual ubiquity. Traveling installations.
Possible Women. Ritual Actions
The print. Street Interventions: Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Wales, France
2003-4 Identities, Independent Artists International encounter organizer and participant
Journey Tales: 4 installations
2002 Lectures on Ceramics and Mythology, both in Morelia and Europe
Ego, curator and participant, the Morelia Contemporary Art Museum
1998 Artists of Chihuahua –curator. Museo Cuevas, México City.
1995 Curating and coordinating Quintanilla y las mujeres, by Luis Quintanilla Stallsmith and
Odisea de la luz, 50 años del fotógrafo Héctor García. For Vientos activities. Morelia,
1994 Vientos de Cambio, newspaper cultural magazine director
1993-1995
Papel de Luna, colective. Musical and poetic actions
1988-1990 Catarsis, experimental group
1992 AfroCuban Festival in Valle de Bravo.
1990 Tribute to John Lennon, various activities in Mexico City Coordinated plastic arts collective exhibitions in Mexico City: Nutopia. Imagine, and Mind Games,
1984/92 Ran a ceramic store and gallery, where my work was on permanent exhibition.
FUNDINGS, AWARDS, GRANTS
2007 Artist in Residence, Art and Ecology Residence, Guapamacátaro, Mich. www.guapamacataro.org
Lebesbaum axion, Germany

2006 Artist in Residence, Kunstmeile Krems, Österreich
III International Ceramic Tile Triennial, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2005 Tocavén Prize for the Artistic Worth, La Voz de Michoacán,
Artist in Residence, Coed Hills Rural Art Space, Wales, UK.
2004 Travel grant: Rechberghausen Art Fest, Germany
VII Xuntanza Obradoiro Internacional Das Artes Plásticas, Galicia, España
2003 Wyndham City Contemporary Art Prize 2003, Werribee, Australia
2002 Selection: II Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres en el Arte, México DF
Travel grant. Keramik Museum Westerwald, Hoer- Grenzhausen, Germany, Capel Celfyddyd and North Wales Potters Association, UK, holding lectures on Michoacan pottery.
FOESCAM laureated, Jouney Tales project.
1999 Artistic Residency at Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
Selection and lecture: Primer Encuentro Nacional de Cerámica, Monterrey
1998 Selection: I Bienal Olga Costa de Pintura y Escultura
Selection: Segunda Bienal de Arte en Cerámica, Monterrey. NL
1997 Member of the Editorial Bureau, Instituto Michoacano de Cultura
1996 Grant from FONCA to publish Vientos, periodismo cultural en Morelia.
1995 Travel award, Arte del Momento, La Habana-Morelia-Valinhôs, La Habana, Cuba.
1994 Member of Selection Boardl, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce.
1993 Funding to take Ciudad Profunda collection traveling for three years around the country. INBA.
Has published the journalism anthology Vientos and the book La Diosa Oscura, Mitología y Sexo. Also articles and essays published national and internationally, Held workshops on ceramics, lectures on ceramics, woman and mythology. Keeps her website ongoing. In her spare time she does Urban and rural community work.
Mother of two men: Amadís and Alonso.
Identity axion/zapatista leylines
Coed Hills, Wales

One Earth/global axion
for Mother and for SELAI
Morelia, 2004
With musician Guillermo Portillo
The water that’s left
Ritual axion for identidades.02
Morelia 2005

The Print
Street intervention
Paris, 2005
Dead is a lie
Ritual axion for Argentina
Buenos Aires, 2007

Made in México
From Unter Rot Project
Digital photograph
Krems, Austria 2006
The Wpund
From Unter Rot Project
Digital photograph
Krems, Austria 2006

Straigh line is Goddesless
Intervention on snow
From UNter Rot Project
Baden, Austria 2006
We want us alive / Lebesbaum
For Unter Rot Project
Axion/street installation
Krems, Austria, 2006

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