The New Yorker featured an article about Syrian disbursement across the Middle east and Europe. The project tracks several Syrians, including a poet and a photographer as they set up life in new lands. Last year, as I began to map where Syrian artists had gone, a sculptor friend of mine who is based in …
Category: Maps
On Venezuelan Migration: Sebatián Llovera’s Non-Linear Trajectories
by Elvira Blanco By mid-2019, the number of Venezuelans to migrate since the beginning of the Chavista regime in 1999 has reached four million. The phenomenon increased dramatically over the past 4 years, with people fleeing food and healthcare shortages, violence, skyrocketing inflation, and abysmally low wages. The consequences are felt across Latin America, as …
Mapping Migrant Journeys
– by Sumita Chakravarty There is a kind of matter-of-factness in the voices we hear in Bouchra Khalili’s The Mapping Journey Project, a series of eight videos that is currently installed in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Each video is projected on a screen and as we move from …