Transit Exil Immigration
From 21.06. – 02.07.2023 in the context of the kunst altonale in the Altonaer Museum, Museumstraße 23, 22765 Hamburg
The video recordings began in 2009, with refugees talking about their flight, their life in transit and their visions of secure living conditions. From 2011 to 2021, portraits were made of young people at the time. Other protagonists from Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Ukraine and Russia joined the project. They are all border crossers on the run in order to survive.
The interviews provide insights into very personal experiences, everyday observations and survival strategies. How can one develop perspectives under these experiences? What spaces of movement can be opened up?
One thematic focus is dealing with racist assaults.
The video portraits were shot in a studio-like situation in front of a neutral, gray background.
One starting point of the work is to question the images of foreigners and refugees that prevail in the media and continue to have an effect in the cultural unconscious of former colonial powers, through the subjective perspectives of refugees.
The sound installation, reading from the ‘UNITED List of Refugee Deaths’ from January 2022 to February 2023, takes place in the entrance hall.
This list documents the data of more than 52,760 people who died on the flight route in Europe between 1993 and mid-2023.
In Cooperation mit UNITED againstrefugeedeaths
UNITED for Intercultural Action – European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees
