Art & migrants

Adrian Paci - Centro di Permanenza Temporanea (Temporary Reception Center), 2007, 16-9 video projection, color, sound, 5’30’’

Adrian Paci’s Temporary Reception Center – Hope for a better future

Video Art / 5 minutes of reading

Adrian Paci’s artwork, Temporary Reception Center (2007), is a powerful take on the political themes of displacement. Paci, an Albanian artist, captures the drama of migrants, the denied hope, and the uncertainty of life in a new environment in this art piece. With his work, the artist makes a statement on the refugee crisis …

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The story of Steve McCurry & Sharbat Gula, the Afghan Girl

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Sharbat Gula, the face of the Afghanistan tragedy Not many people would know which face to match with the name Sharbat Gula, yet her image is quite popular. As a young refugee in Afghanistan, she was photographed by the National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. This photograph of the green-eyed girl that even the photographer would …

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Richard Mosse’s Incoming – A military-grade camera & Migrants

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Art pieces inspired by war As sad and as unfortunate as it may sound, war has the uncanny capacity to spawn an overflow of artistic output. The installations and exhibitions that come out of war throw new light on the motivation for conflict and the responses to conflict by soldiers. Art pieces inspired by war …

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Sebastião Salgado’s Exodus – The stories of global migration

Photography / 5 minutes of reading

Sebastião Salgado & Migration Six years. That is the amount of time Sebastião Salgado spent capturing the story of migration, the migrant crisis, individual heart-stopping moments in the never-ending migration and exile of humans. Exodus is a poignant collection that adds photographic evidence and storytelling of humanity on the move. When he started this documentation …

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Alan Delorme’s Totem – Colorful madness in Shanghai

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

French artist Alain Delorme’s Totem series features images of towering stacks of objects that appear to teeter perilously like totem poles. His project name is ambiguous because it almost indicates that the project is about the dazzling heights of the Shanghai skyscrapers. However, the entire project focuses on migrants attempting and struggling to ferry …

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Adel Abdessemed’s Hope & Lampedusa

Installations, Mixed media / 3 minutes of reading

What was Hope (2011-2012)? In 2012, Algerian born artist Adel Abdessemed showed Hope as part of his solo exhibition Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf at David Zwirner. The large makeshift boat was found abandoned on a beach in the Florida Keys (US). Typically used to illegally transport immigrants in pursuit of a new …

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