Tag: refugees

  • Perilous Bodies

    The 19 artists in this exhibition use photography, video, installation, sculpture and painting in a timely reminder of the injustices faced by oppressed people across the world

  • Doris Salcedo

    The White Cube presents two of Doris Salcedo’s works, each exploring loss and the fragility of life with the artist’s signature flair

  • Banu Cennetoğlu: The List

    Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu talks about the List, a documentation of refugees known to have died trying to reach Europe, now on show at the Liverpool Biennial, her recent film at the Chisenhale that spanned more than 128 hours, and…

  • Baldwin and Guggisberg: ‘If you’re not in a white cube it forces you to take into consideration the reality that’s around you’

    Having just installed 10, mostly blown-glass pieces around Canterbury Cathedral for their exhibition Under an Equal Sky, Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg talk about these new works and the resonance between their historic setting and their chosen issues of migration,…

  • Vanessa Baird: You are Something Else

    Vanessa Baird’s vivid, illustrative pastels depicting domestic chaos and drowning refugees make for an immersive experience in her new solo show, You Are Something Else, at Oslo’s Kunstnernes Hus. This and other new public commissions in Oslo indicate an artist…

  • Lamia Joreige: ‘Anything you film in a certain reality at a certain moment is a diagnosis of a present’

    The artist, one of six finalists included in the Artes Mundi 7 exhibition, talks about her project Objects of War, a collective history of the Lebanese civil war, and her newer “poetic essays” exploring neighbourhoods in Beirut through film, photography,…