THE GLOBAL ART PROJECT

CROSSING BORDERS: WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS

THE GLOBAL ART PROJECT 

“Where can we find a safe haven?”

With immigration looming large as a hot button item politically, polarizing as well as unifying, this exhibition demonstrate the many ways artists create works that deal with this question. From the lack of compassion to international and jurisdictional walls being built, the exhibiting artists dive deeply into depictions of ethnocentric responses and unreasonable blockages to the ever present desperation of immigrants trying to find a home/country they can feel safe in when they do not feel safe in their own.

In photographs, paintings, monumental sculptures, installations and performance CrossingBorders offers insight into concerns ranging from gender transformation, the Atlantic slave trade, the DNA of consolidation as well as the immigrant at the border, on the shore welcomed or washed out.