When Home Won`t Let You Stay - Migration Through Contemporary Art

About this book

"In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global migration, examining both its cultural impact and the culture of migration itself. Individual voices shed light on the societal transformations related to migration and its representation in 21st-century art, offering diverse points of entry into this massive phenomenon and its many manifestations. The featured artworks range from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, video, and sound art, and their makers-including Isaac Julien, Richard Mosse, Reena Saini Kallat, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Do Ho Suh, among many others-hail from around the world. Texts by experts in political science, Latin American studies, and human rights, as well as contemporary art, expand upon the political, economic, and social contexts of migration and its representation. The book also includes three conversations in which artists discuss the complexity of making work about migration. Amid worldwide tensions surrounding refugee crises and border security, this publication provides a nuanced interpretation of the current cultural moment. Intertwining themes of memory, home, activism, and more, When Home Won't Let You Stay meditates on how art both shapes and is shaped by the public discourse on migration."-- Includes artwork by Reena Saini Kallat, Adrian Piper, Camilo Ontiveros, Richard Mosse, Hayv Kahraman, Rinek Dijkstra, Do Ho Suh, Mona Hatoum, Xaviera Simmons, Yto Barrada, Kader Attia, Issac Julien, Tania Bruguera, Richard Misrach, Guillermo Galindo, Carlos Motta, Aliza Nisenbaum, Anthony Romero, Michelle Angela Ortiz, and Yinka Shonibare CBE.