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Participating artists:
Felipe Romero Beltrán and Raisan Hameed

opening hours:
4-5:30pm

Venue:
Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg)
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin

Migration is currently dominating the political debate more than almost any other topic. Among other things, it is fuelled by the prevailing image politics, which are constantly working on the image of the ‘other’ and the ‘foreigner’. The consequences are a constant reinvention of enemy images and the exaggeration of the national.  
The panel, on the other hand, takes an inward look and focuses on the thinking and works of two artists whose individual experiences of flight and migration form the starting point for their work. Using different conceptual methods, which include documentary strategies as well as collaborative and staged practices, they address themes such as loss, memory and places of waiting, but also the social reality of new beginnings and new encounters.  

In precise contrast to the under-complex and often dehumanising political rhetoric, the works of Hameed and Beltrán offer nuanced and unifying insights into experiences of migration and flight, opening up space for contradictions, vulnerability and the imaginary. 

As part of the what stands between us exhibition