The Phillips Collection in Washington DC recently wrapped up an exhibit in partnership with the New Museum in New York, exploring “both real and imaginary geographies, reconstructing personal and collective tales of migration.”

More information from the Phillips Collection here…

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When Home Won’t Let You Stay

The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston is featuring an exhibit titled: When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art. The museum says the collection is a response to “the migration, immigration, and displacement of peoples today, in works ranging from personal accounts to poetic meditations.”

The exhibit is open through January before travelling to Minneapolis.

More information about the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the exhibit can be found here…

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#NowOnView: In “La Mer Morte (The Dead Sea),” individual pieces of blue clothing on the gallery floor evoke bodies washed ashore as well as a seascape. Born and raised outside Paris in an Algerian Muslim community, Attia has perceived how the European media has sensationalized migration from neighboring countries as a “migrant crisis,” with “waves” or “masses” of migrants with whom Europe must “cope,” stoking xenophobia and anxiety. Focusing his work in visual art and film as a corrective to those who are misrepresented or depersonalized in the media, Attia seeks to emphasize the realities of migrant communities rather than their fictive representations. #ICABoston #ICAmigration #KaderAttia — Kader Attia, La Mer Morte (The Dead Sea), 2015. Clothes, overall dimensions variable. Installation view, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul. Photo by Mel Taing @m.ltaing © Kader Attia

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