How can the stories we tell about tragic experiences connect people and create cultures of bearing witness and responsibility rather than encouraging voyeurism or indifference?
Can the expression of conviviality act as a reminder of everyday acts of kindness?
While governments tighten asylum and citizenship for the poor and persecuted, they sell it at ever higher costs for the rich.
Freedom of movement means no such thing. Movement is a marketplace – how much does it cost?
The expression of emotion is key to the spread of declarations online. But can online identities really address the difficult political realities of migration?
Fearing war, a mother of twin infants journeyed to a safer place. During the journey, a tragedy occurred. Behjat explores these events through a series of drawings, evoking subtle – almost invisible – hints of violence.
Diverse groups came together to regenerate an arguably exhausted political language. At a fraught moment, the project repeatedly asks: who are ‘we'? Who gets to decide? What does it mean to belong? Review.
As the body moves and migrates, it holds memories, it breaks and repairs, ages and becomes ‘infected’ – with new thoughts, utopian dreams. It arrives in a space already claimed by others.
“In the nightmare of the dark / All the dogs of Europe bark, / And the living nations wait, / Each sequestered in its hate”.
