UNTITLED MIGRANT
Solo exhibition, Fashion & Lace Museum
Brussels
2019
“Je est un autre”
A. Rimbaud
Untitled Migrant is a chant about migration and its heroes, realized thanks to the participation of a group of migrant people living in São Paulo and Lisbon.
The installation is composed by an affective migrant cartography and a series of lithographs, made on fabric. The entry of visitors to the exhibition space is barefoot, as a minimal experimentation of openness to vulnerability related with the migrant experience.
The Affective Migrant Cartography
40 embroidered pieces of clothes, lithographs and digital prints on paper
I used the migrants' clothing as support for the cartography, embroidering their testimonies and experiences, following these axes of dialogue:
. There is no place like home
. Sensing the migratory displacement following subjective geographies
. Reaching a horizon: motivations, difficulties, and dreams
More than a documentary narrative, the cartography reveals personal aspects, highlighting the precariousness that often accompany migrant experience,. The cartography - installed on the ground- serves as a base for visitors to move freely in the space through these fragments of migrant life.
The Lithographs series
12 lithographs on fabric, lace, embroidery
The installation incorporates a series of lithographs, which experiemnt engraving together with textile art. The body of lithoghs compose a possible worldwide migratory landscape reflecting the relationships between migration, colonization, wars, dictatorships, famines, and climatic disasters. The iconographic repertoire of lithographs emerged from the encounters with migrants.
Untitled Migrant was produced thanks to the support of Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation- São Paulo. It has been at Musee de la Mode et Dentelle-Brussels, at Contextile Contemporary Textile Art Biennial- Guimaraes, and ]at Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, thanks to the support of the Instituto Ramon Llull.
