a journal of research & art
By Dina Greenberg
In each of the cities and small villages I visited, remnants of war—in the form of crumbling and bullet-riddled buildings—served as reminders of the recent past, even as new schools, condos, and office towers had filled the landscape.
This is an ongoing project that I have been working on since the full-scale Russian invasion began in 2022. It serves as visual evidence of Russian war crimes targeting civilians. The photographs were taken all across Ukraine.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
Stunning artworks trigger a reflection on the implications of biometrics collection for human autonomy and personhood.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
Beyond offering a light, playful, and enchanted spatial experience, these works embody the will to foster communication and propose a pause in the flow of urban life.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
Helen Zughaib and Houda Kassatly are attentive to the everydayness of refugees’ experiences and to how families who have been forced to migrate attempt to cope.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
In their treatment of shapes, contour lines, or colors, artists appropriate the cartographic instrument to give life to new forms and new meanings that elicit emotions.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
By creating spatial continuity and playing with light, volumes, and temporalities, the artists fashion atmospheric moments and prompt unexpected place-based experiences.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
Artists cross-examine Kazakh pasts and presents, positioning post-Soviet identities at the juncture of different timelines and questioning agency, resistance, and potential.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
The artists succeed in making the urban poor and the homeless visible by challenging social indifference and mobilizing the public’s awareness.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
Whether migrants, refugees, descendants of migrants, or simply people from another place, the characters in these installations reveal their voids, fears, uncertainties, and hopes.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
Artists use archival photographs to confront histories of domination and cultural eradication from Saamiland to the Maghreb.
By Eliza Bourner
Bourner’s work is informed by our cultural and psychological landscapes and how contemporary society’s dysfunctional values of materialism are at odds with our basic human needs.
By Simone Perolari
These are stories of migrants who dream of Europe, hoping to be welcomed, but who quickly understand that it will ultimately be an unwelcome.
By Charlotta María Hauksdóttir
The physical space of landscapes can be closely tied to a person’s identity, sense of being, and infused with personal history. The composite, textured landscapes are a re-creation of…
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
Three artists participate in the special feature to join the reflection on what it means to be human in a multispecies world.
By Susan Ossman ԻOlga Sezneva
Ossman made “Sources” with elements of her own experiences of crossing borders, making new homes and learning to live in new places.
Curated by Nicole Shea
Each cinema hall is its own self-contained world with clearly defined boundaries, in colourful dialogue with the interior.
By Magali Chesnel
After a difficult 2020 year, Chesnel reinforced her belief that going outside was regenerative and ever-inspiring.
By Various Artists
Works of art in civic space distribute clean energy and provide other sustainable services to buildings and the utility grid while beautifying the built environment.
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The images in “Egun” are the manifestation of a long held desire to revisit formative cultural experiences from the artist’s childhood in Nigeria; encounters with the Egun masquerade.
By Julia Fullerton-Batten
I felt numb but I knew that I couldn’t stand around and do nothing, I decided to document today’s existence as lived now by many people.
By Renata Dutrée
Black toxic masculinity is a unique beast rooted in white supremacy, internalized racism, internalized queerphobia, and misogynoir.
By Magali Chesnel
Discover Chesnel’s photographs taken in the Camargue, above the salt marshes of Giraud and Aigues-Mortes, creating a confusion between reality and illusion, photography and painting.
By Hew Locke
A ship is a symbolic object; vessel of the soul, means of escape, both safety and danger. No crew are visible—the boats themselves stand for crew and passengers.
By Seb Janiak
This series makes use only of the manifestation of unseen forces. The imaging of the manifestation of these unseen forces undergoes no digital transformation in the photographs.
By Mishka Henner
A landscape occasionally punctuated by sharp aesthetic contrasts between secret sites and the rural and urban environments surrounding them.
By Sol Calero
Calero’s work explores themes of representation, displacement, and marginalization, all informed by her own perspective as a migrant.
By Maria Wasilewska
Creating her spatial models, Maria Wasilewska tries to create a physically and mentally consistent unity, which may contain some particle of information about the world.
By Mikael Owunna
After enduring years of alienation from his Nigerian heritage, Owunna began Limit(less) to reclaim his African-ness and queerness on his own terms.
By Medina Dugger
Dugger’s images feature the veil primarily in an abstract sense, observing its forms, patterns, colors, and its contribution to identity, self-expression, and style.
By Charles Geiger
Geiger’s work deals with climate and displacement outside the arid context of cacti, as many of his recent semi-narrative paintings depict severe weather events.
Curated by Rusudan Zabakhidze
Emphasis on mental health has resulted in a de-taboo process of the associated challenges. Visual arts contributes towards healing and raising awareness about these issues.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
The scavenger-artists showcased here not only modify the status of waste, but also brace a pedagogical movement vital to the subsistence of the planet.
By Katya Traboulsi
1975 Lebanon is in flames and I am fifteen. For my birthday, I receive the empty sleeve of a mortar shell, which I automatically place on a shelf.
By Nathalie Peutz
Nadia Benchallal’s photographs depict the camp’s predominantly Yemeni residents navigating a state of increasingly permanent suspension.
By Mohamad Hafez
A Syrian born artist depicts cities besieged by civil war to capture the magnitude of the devastation and to expose the fragility of human life.
Carlo Cafferini
Throughout the ages, architecture has been used as a way to express a wide range of concepts, reflecting the historical, political, and religious beliefs of the period.
Curated by Nicole Shea and Kayla Maiuri
This art series illustrates both the phenomenal beauty of water and the pollution that has washed upon our shores at the hands of humankind.
Jesse Krimes
A Philadelphia-based artist whose work explores power, authority, systems, social hierarchies, norms, transgressions, and conventions of beauty.
Curated by Nicole Shea
Artists Hank Willis Thomas and Yosman Botero call awareness to racism and police brutality, pulling viewers into unarmed victim cases and making them witnesses to inequality.
Curated by Nicole Shea
Tjalf Sparnaay’s oil paintings highlight the beauty of the contemporary commonplace while David Hicks draws his inspiration from the beauty of farm lands surrounding his home.
Curated by Kayla Maiuri and Nicole Shea
Through the works of Kim Noble and Jorge Tacla, “Hands Tied” tackles questions of identity and the throes of mental illness, ultimately illustrating the beauty that can be discovered.
By Susan Ossman
This mobile art and scholarship laboratory tests, enacts, and teases out the idea that subjects are formed not simply by sharing territory, blood or nationality, but according to the paths they have followed.
Curated by Nicole Shea
While Xin Song’s work highlights the ancient folk art tradition of paper-cutting, her collages made from recycled magazines also cut through modern consumerism and wastefulness.
Curated by Nicole Shea
The modern metropolis thrives on the creativity of its citizens, with the arts and culture as revitalizing forces.
Curated by Kayla Maiuri
In this photography series, we showcase the works of three emerging Finnish artists, Anni Hanén, Kimmo Metsäranta, ԻJaakko Kahilaniemi.
Curated by Kayla Maiuri
Through the works of three African-European artists, “It Dwells Within” depicts the contemporary and historical relationship between Europe and Africa.
Curated by Nicole Shea
The perception of a safe home is closely linked with the populist view that women’s “intended role” is at home, as dutiful wife and mother.
Curated by Nicole Shea
This series features three Bulgarian-born artists who experienced the Iron Curtain and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Motion and movement connect the works.
Curated by Nicole Shea
Depicting illusion, greed, and over-consumption, both artists wrestle with the impact that financial delusions have on the human psyche.
Curated by Nicole Shea
These artists tackle stereotypes and prejudices, focusing on the cultural capital of immigration and the ambition for a better life.
Marinos Tsagkarakis
This photo series aims to highlight the consequences of a massive and uncontrolled tourist development.
Curated by Nicole Shea
This series offers idealized bodies whereby the tall and the slim define the desirable female, as guns, muscles and sports define the true man.
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With collaboration as the nucleus for sustainability and transformation, this series highlights artistic innovation in refugee camps.
Curated by Felix Meyer-Christian
The Berlin and Hamburg based COSTA COMPAGNIE was founded in 2009 as an collaboration of interdisciplinary working emerging artists.
Curated by Nicole Shea
This series illuminates the dangers confronting our waters, from leaking pipes to discarded plastics.
Curated by Manca Bajec
The question of voyeurism and victimization of narrative often comes into question when artists are working with topics of war.
By Anna Tihanyi
The scenes take place in different interiors of a fictive Berlin, showing feelings and relations through moments of transition, and emphasizing that the image is frozen in time.
Curated by Nisha Sajnani
Through resettled media, each artist contemplates the psychological, social, and physical effects of forced migration.
By Viktoria Sorochinski
This series portrays the last remains of the authentic Ukrainian villages and their elderly inhabitants.
By Alia Ali
The multi-media artist invites the viewer to analyze their subjective perception in regards to inclusion and exclusion, and the threshold in which the transition between the two occurs.
By Sarita Zaleha
Zaleha’s creative research explores environmental agency and our emotional engagement with the environment.
Directed by Maria Hengge
Sin and Illy have a plan: on a Greek island they want to get ‘clean’ on their own. But the intention of the two girls fails already on the way to the airport. Finally Sin realizes she has to go the way out of heroin addiction all alone.
Directed by Mike Day
The Faroese are among the first to feel the affects of our ever more polluted oceans. They have discovered that their beloved whales are toxic, contaminated by the outside world. What once secured their survival now endangers their children and the Faroe Islanders must make a choice between health and tradition.
Directed by Timothy George Kelly
A portrait of a democracy in all its impossible and ugly glory. With subtle force, yet without judgement, it presents the people of a once powerful empire as they negotiate their identities in a world that is changing faster than, ever and in which power appears to lie further and further from people’s own hands.
By Ӱɴý Film Festival
Untold stories of men, women, and families; their mission to embrace the change and fight for the unknown while nostalgically reminiscing all those unkept promises from the past.
Directed by Mihajlo Jevtic
This film is a story of immigration and identity after the dissolution of former Yugoslavia, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Mihajlo Jevtic. It follows the period of transition of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia into today’s Serbia and Mihajlo’s transition from a child into a middle aged man. It is a film made by a man who is about to leave his country for good and about the contents of his immigrant’s suitcase.
By Ӱɴý Film Festival
A selection of short films from to be screened at the inaugural Ӱɴý Film Festival.
