Gohar Dashti Work from Land/s. “Regardless of who we are, our lives are layered and richly textured with physical and figurative uprooting(s) and migrations. On one of my trips, an immigrant friend asked me to take a postcard back to her family in our country of origin (Iran); on the front of the postcard was […]

Widline Cadet Work from her oeuvre. “Widline Cadet (b. 1992 in Pétion-Ville, Haiti; currently lives and works in New York) is a Haitian-born artist. Her practice draws from personal history and examines race, memory, erasure, migration, and Haitian cultural identity from a viewpoint within the United States. She uses photography, video, and installations to construct […]

Ursula Biemann Work from her oeuvre. “Ursula Biemann (Switzerland) is an artist, theorist and curator who has in recent years produced a considerable body of work on migration, mobility, technology and gender. In a series of internationally exhibited video projects, as well as in several books ‘Been there and back to nowhere’ (2000), ‘Stuff It – […]

Petrit Halijaj Work from Kostërrc (CH). “Kostërrc (CH), 2011 consists of a hole (600 x 400 x 230 cm high) made in the Kostërrc hill in Kosovo. This hill is property of the Halilaj family and the original location of the house where the artist was born. The soil taken from the hole is transported […]