Carlos Motta, The Crossing (2017) — Art and Migration Virtual Exhibition Tour

Carlos Motta (Born 1978 in Bogotá, Colombia)
The Crossing, 2017
Selections from an eleven-channel video installation (color, sound)
Courtesy the artist and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York; Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon; Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo; and mor charpentier, Paris

The Crossing features video portraits of 11 LGBTQI+ refugees living in the Netherlands, whom artist Carlos Motta met through the Dutch organization Secret Garden.

Here, six individuals narrate the experiences they each faced before and after their immigration to Europe.

Motta presents these stories as video portraits, in which the subjects retain agency over the content and details of their stories.

Depicting harrowing moments of struggle and survival and complicated relationships to home and family, these portraits illuminate how persecution based on sexual and gender identity affects vulnerable migrant populations.

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