Curated by Diana Ali at Art Center Caravel, ARTE.M Association, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal 2024 & Arthall, Victoria, Gozo, Malta 2025

Concept:

We are facing many barriers globally where our identities are being bruised, rejected, and turned away. This leaves a tension for bodies, thoughts, and circumstances to be accepted and co-exist. Artists have been invited to contest and question what it means to face barriers. Often our artworks have been declined from being shown and exhibited. This exhibition gives an opportunity for the art to migrate. There may not be a utopia, but there are ways of overcoming barriers. Imagine the artwork being personified. What would it say if it had freedom of movement, no immigration law, finding asylum and a sense of belonging without being displaced? A fantastic array of international artists come together in one space to question, confront and seek sanctuary through their artwork.

Exhibition information/Flyer:

Exhibition information/Flyer:

UPDATE 2025

In 2024, a majority of the work was detained by the Portuguese customs on the way to be exhibited in Madeira. The artwork did not have a freedom to roam. In 2025, the art hopes to confront crossings and overcome barriers by having the opportunity to be exhibited at Arthall, Malta.

Digital Dialogues (Darren Williams, UK & Jason Davies, Wales)

'Mind the Gap II'

(Photography on thermal printed paper roll) 

50mm (w) x 2400mm (h)



An exchange of photographic imagery taken as we navigate our daily lives outside of our physical studio spaces based in Cardiff, Wales and Herefordshire, England. The studio environment aligned in our collective consciousness as the site of production, neglects the influence of the various external crossings taken each day that subconsciously influence the production process. These numerous, overlooked invisible boundaries loosen the barriers to wider dissemination. 

 

This realised single work is a visual dialogue of these inconspicuous thresholds crossed unnoticed each and every day. These psychological crossings have made us question and rethink their wider implications…..in the end informing and influencing the form of production, manifesting as a literal crossing point within the group show.


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