UNTITLED MIGRANT
Solo exhibition, Fashion & Lace Museum
Brussels
2019
“Je est un autre”
A. Rimbaud
Untitled Migrant is a chant to migration and to its everyday heroes, created through collaborations with migrant communities in São Paulo and Lisbon. The installation brings together an affective migrant cartography and a series of lithographs printed on fabric.
Visitors enter the space barefoot — an invitation to embrace vulnerability and to approach the migrant experience with openness, sensitivity, and care.
The Affective Migrant Cartography
40 embroidered garments, lithographs, and digital prints
For this cartography, I used garments belonging to migrants themselves as both canvas and archive, embroidering their stories through three interconnected lines of dialogue:
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the home we inhabit versus the home we feel belongs to us
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migration as a sensory experience, mapped through intimate geographies
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the search for a horizon: motivations, obstacles, desires, and dreams
Laid directly on the ground, the cartography becomes a landscape that visitors walk through — a terrain composed of memories, traces, and fragments of migrant lives.
The Lithographs series
12 lithographs on fabric, lace, embroidery
The installation incorporates a series of lithographs that experiment with engraving in dialogue with textile art. Together, the works compose a possible global migratory landscape, inviting reflection on the interconnected realities of migration, colonisation, war, dictatorships, famine, and climate catastrophe.
The iconographic repertoire also emerged through encounters and exchanges with migrants, whose stories, memories, and experiences became part of the work’s visual language.
Untitled Migrant was produced thanks to the support of Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation- São Paulo and Instituto Ramon Llull- Barcelona. It was shown 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.
