Art & travel / displacement / exile / migration / nomadism

An artistic and research project focusing on issues of travel, exile, migration, welcome and hospitality in a globalized world.

By the Means at Hand offers a look into Vlatka Horvat's eponymous project, presented at the Pavilion of Croatia at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia in 2024.

A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.

A visual and text based investigation led by Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili during many years following the traces left by the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes, a group fighting for the rights of the Arab workers in France at the turn of the 1970s.

In this moving story, published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, young readers follow Mahmoud Darwish, the celebrated Palestinian poet whose words became a voice for the displaced.

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume explores the creative life of Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneering Lebanese artist who challenged norms through geometry, abstraction, and sculpture.

A selection of previously unpublished photographs from the Bolol project conducted by Eva Diallo since 2018 on the trail of overland migration routes from Africa to Europe.

Artist Bruno Zhu's project on the perception of migratory phenomena and the creation of identity and nationalist narratives.

Departures, journeys and arrivals in around 200 photographs: The Family of Migrants brings together 136 photographers from around the world, presenting both iconic and lesser-known images that illustrate migration as a timeless phenomenon (Arabic edition).

All that grows: nature and writing chronicles the author's upbringing in Argentina, her exile to Spain, and her resulting reconciliation of place, memory, loss, and growth.

Through the Prism of Borders brings together artistic and academic voices to explore borderlands as dynamic and relational spaces shaped by history, landscape and human experience.

A photographic journey through different places that are so many possible “ideas” of Jerusalem.

An unflinching photographic journey into the heart of Asia’s most intense and sacred rituals.

In the spring of 1966, four illustrious travelers cross the United States from west to east, photographing America's architecture at its heyday.

A philosopher's journey into the heart of New York artistic life.

A compelling narrative by Omar Kholeif through the life and work of one of the pioneering artists of our time.

The trip to Saudi Arabia by photographer Giovanna Silva and curator Emilia Giorgi.

Informal Inclusion poetically unveils the violence of a world, our own, that is the offspring of our forgotten colonial world, and is crossed each day by migratory processes that transform the social and geographic fabric thanks to the paradoxically "inclusive" power of the dynamics that are generated in the marginal spaces.

An art project articulated around the issue of migration and diasporas from the Global South that sees the Mediterranean transformed into a place of waiting, suspension, and passing away, a solid space of embodying absence.

The continuation and culmination of a vast project, articulated between an exhibition and a symposium, imagined by South African curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), inviting 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora and a group of researchers to evoke black aesthetics and propose an alternative vision of a world without borders.

The continuation and culmination of a vast project, articulated between an exhibition and a symposium, imagined by South African curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), inviting 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora and a group of researchers to evoke black aesthetics and propose an alternative vision of a world without borders.

An analysis of contemporary artistic practices among artists from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the context of evolving global networks and art production.

A selection of original texts by Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), revealing the author's sororal empathy for the condition of the Bedouin women of the Maghreb whom she encountered during her desert wanderings, dressed as a man.

Monograph devoted to Yaron Michael Hakim's Psittaciformes body of work, drawing inspiration from the migratory nature of parrots and their ability to assimilate. Through bold paintings on used Dacron sailcloth, Hakim uses this subject matter to explore his own relationship with assimilation, living between cultures, and the exoticization of his heritage.

An overview of John Akomfrah's work, with contributions by Julia Grosse and Nelly Y. Pinkrah, an interview with the artist, along with a foreword by Sebastian Baden.

SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. For Lovers Only / Rain Suite features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.

Two discreet works by Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser that sit somewhere between field recording, chance composition and experimental soundscape.

At a time when refugees in Europe are caught between a "return" policy and the rise of far right governments, this book combines photography and philosophy to examine the representation of refugees.

The first monograph by Swedish-Greek-American photographer and artist Florence Montmare showcases images made in 2021–22 while traveling across the United States from east to west (and back), to meet the minorities who make up today's America.

"For those who, despite everything, have decided to live, there will always be a home." A work on the experience of exile and migration, memory and selfhood, from legendary French-Rwandan storyteller Scholastique Mukasonga.

What architectural possibilities can emerge when we reimagine arid landscapes as spaces of abundance? (a collective book conceived as a travelogue that challenges preconceptions around aridity: the official publication of UAE's National Pavilion at Venise Biennale of Architecture).

A wide-ranging panorama of La Réunion's artistic scene, through the works of 34 artists and texts by five authors, art historians, poets, and researchers: an exciting exploration of artistic creations that question postcolonial society, migration, displacement, cultural hybridization, as well as our understanding living together.

A collective project around the Vietnamese and Asian artistic diaspora, on the theme of cultural identity in the post-migration society.

By now a regular and esteemed presence among the Discrepant sprawling household via releases with projects such as Alförjs, Banha da Cobra or Jibóia, Mestre André "resurrects" his O Morto alias (bad pun somewhat intended) after 2016 "The Forest, The People And The Spirits".

A photographer-cum-explorer presents his stunning (both sublime and alarming) landscape images from around the world.

The photographs made by Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in Morocco in the 1950s.

Tocqueville's travel notes, enriched by a photo essay by Ramak Fazel.

The immersive sound diary of a trip to Bali.

A very personal literary narrative, with a singular writing, of a migrant's experience of wandering and borders.

A film by Gilles Coudert and Damien Faure about the stained glass windows made by Kimsooja for the Metz Cathedral: a dialogue between contemporary art and cultural heritage and between Eastern and Western thought.

A complete overview of the vast cinematographic project of the Italian artist and director around the "Arab Spring".

An invitation to reflect on exile and self-building (novel).

An anthology of text and graphic scores to be used while walking, from Fluxus to the critical works of current artists, through the tradition of experimental music and performance, gathered and presented by Elena Biserna.