1. Centro di Permanenza Temporanea, Adrian Paci, 2009 + (video below) 2. Flughafen, Ho-Yeol Ryu

1. Centro di Permanenza Temporanea, Adrian Paci, 2009 + (video below)2. Flughafen, Ho-Yeol Ryu, 2005Two photos succeed in capturing in a single image how migration and mobility have come to define the way people live in today’s globalized world. Ho-Yeol Ryu (b. 1971, Seoul) created a composition photo of Hannover Airport, Flughafen, in which aircraft appear to struggle for a place in the sky. The result is an iconic image of our desire for mobility. Centro di Permanenza Temporanea  by Adrian Paci (b. 1969, Shkoder) also shows an airport, although here as a metaphorical location where people are stuck in a permanently temporary situation. Men and women are crowding up an air stair, yet there is no plane. The stairs form an island in a concrete waste. The picture suggests that air travel is not for everyone, although global economic inequality forces many to migrate. Paci shows the harshness, and also the absurdity of our uncertain socioeconomic reality. - artofthedayThis work was shown as part of an exhibition ’Imagined Places’:[The exhibition asks] does a person’s location determine their identity? At Amsterdam’s Tropenmuseum, the Imagined Places exhibition focuses on the desire to be elsewhere and the reality of forced migration. Presenting photos and video installations by Adrian Paci, Zineb Sedira, Bouchra Khalili, Claudia Cristovão and Ho-Yeol Ryu, the exhibition depicts real and imaginary places, chosen and unchosen journeys. Together, these five works provide an image of a collective experience of a time in which migration and mobility play a central role. In Imagined Places, the unique possibilities of video and photography enable the artists to show how people connect to places, especially through memory and fantasy, rather than physical interaction. The exhibition takes a critical look at the way many define culture and identity by geographical location. How relevant and productive is it in an increasingly globalized world to continue to treat African, Moroccan or Dutch culture and identity as separate and confined? Are there other ways of understanding and representing people’s experience of culture and identity? Imagined Places seeks to offer five powerful alternative options. Below a short film version of the photo displayed in the exhibition.  -- source link

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