Migrantas has been working since 2001 on projects related to migration, identity and dialogue between different cultures. Their projects combine tools from the social sciences, graphic design and the visual arts, and put them at the disposal of reflection on the migrant condition.
Mobility, migration and transculturality are not exceptional any longer. On the contrary, they are becoming a very central phenomenon of our times. The thoughts and emotions of the immigrants though, remain invisible for the greater part of society.
Through Auslander, Integration and further projects to follow, Migrantas aims to offer a means of expression for these silenced, anonymous identities and to make their experiences public.
The visual language of Migrantas is based on pictograms. These apparently simple drawings combine a high potential for expression with a great power of synthesis. Their universality allows them to adapt to different cultural traces. People from very different backgrounds can recognize themselves in the tension between the singular and the collective.
The installation of the pictograms as advertising posters visually integrates the immigrants' experiences into the urban landscape. Their lives become visible; the city speaks about them. The work is completed by the pedestrian, who is invited to send his or her own messages.
Migrantas assumes that every person has the ability of reflecting on their own individual situation and linking it with broader social and political processes. Thinking about the "macro" causes which determine personal life stories helps to overcome the perception of their own lives as unique while acquiring intellectual tools to deal with it.
The members of Migrantas have themselves emigrated, from Buenos Aires to Berlin. They conceive of their work with other migrants as a horizontal dialogue.
Integration. Pictures of migrant women in Berlin September 23-October 30, 2005 Opening: September 22, 7 PM Finissage: October 28, 7 PM
Galerie im Saalbau
Karl-Marx-Strase 141 12043 Berlin Subway: Karl-Marx-Strase (U 7)
Migrantas has been working since 2001 on projects related to migration, identity and dialogue between different cultures. Their projects combine tools from the social sciences, graphic design and the visual arts, and put them at the disposal of reflection on the migrant condition.
Mobility, migration and transculturality are not exceptional any longer. On the contrary, they are becoming a very central phenomenon of our times. The thoughts and emotions of the immigrants though, remain invisible for the greater part of society.
Through Auslander, Integration and further projects to follow, Migrantas aims to offer a means of expression for these silenced, anonymous identities and to make their experiences public.
The visual language of Migrantas is based on pictograms. These apparently simple drawings combine a high potential for expression with a great power of synthesis. Their universality allows them to adapt to different cultural traces. People from very different backgrounds can recognize themselves in the tension between the singular and the collective.
The installation of the pictograms as advertising posters visually integrates the immigrants' experiences into the urban landscape. Their lives become visible; the city speaks about them. The work is completed by the pedestrian, who is invited to send his or her own messages.
Migrantas assumes that every person has the ability of reflecting on their own individual situation and linking it with broader social and political processes. Thinking about the "macro" causes which determine personal life stories helps to overcome the perception of their own lives as unique while acquiring intellectual tools to deal with it.
The members of Migrantas have themselves emigrated, from Buenos Aires to Berlin. They conceive of their work with other migrants as a horizontal dialogue.
Integration. Pictures of migrant women in Berlin
September 23-October 30, 2005
Opening: September 22, 7 PM
Finissage: October 28, 7 PM
Galerie im Saalbau
Karl-Marx-Strase 141
12043 Berlin
Subway: Karl-Marx-Strase (U 7)
more info
www.migrantas.com