In Transit

Crawford Art Gallery, Emmet Place

Fri 06 Mar 2020 - Sun 03 May 2020 (note: this event has already taken place)
10am
FREE

In Transit

6 March – 4 May 2020

Works by: George Awde, Daniel Castro Garcia, Gohar Dashti, Tanya Habjouqa, and Stefanie Zofia Schulz

Curated by Peggy Sue Amison, East Wing Gallery / Doha, Qatar

In Transit is a multidisciplinary exhibition that focuses on the tentative, limbo-like experience of living between different cultures. The exhibition explores the stories of immigrants who traverse the no-man’s land that exists between home and hope.

The lives of those fleeing from unsafe, economically depressed homelands towards dreams of a more secure future are filled with boredom, sadness, fear, and apathy. They experience the deep absence of the loss of loved ones, familiar places, and citizenship. The photography and video works in this exhibition are created in Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, Italy, and Iran, and are testimonies to day-to-day survival alongside the struggle to find a sense of normalcy and stability and a place to call home.

Utilising photography, performance and filmmaking, each body of work examines the experiences