MoMA Examines Forced Migration and Shelter in 'Insecurities'
The Museum of Modern Art in New York showcases 'Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter', curated by Sean Anderson, which focuses on the worldwide refugee crisis. According to the UN, 65.3 million individuals are currently displaced, with 24 million residing in transit areas. This exhibition is part of the ongoing 'Citizens and Borders' initiative that began in 2008. Featured works include Brendan Bannon's 2011 photograph of the Badaab camp in Kenya and Tobias Hutzler's depiction of the Kilis camp. Additionally, Reena Saini Kallat presents 'Woven Chronicles', highlighting a world map made of telephone cables. The display also includes a UNHCR shelter module and IKEA's 17-square-meter shelter. The exhibition will be open until January 22, 2017, and includes 'Liquid Traces – The Left-to-Die Boat Case', co-directed by Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, which reconstructs a rescue attempt from 2011.
Key facts
- 65.3 million people are currently displaced globally due to conflict, persecution, and environmental disasters.
- 24 million displaced people are trapped in transit zones.
- The exhibition 'Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter' is curated by Sean Anderson at MoMA.
- The show is part of the 'Citizens and Borders' project that began in 2008.
- Brendan Bannon's 2011 aerial photo shows Kenya's Badaab camp with 300,000 Somali refugees.
- Tobias Hutzler's image depicts 2,053 containers at the Kilis camp on the Turkey-Syria border.
- Reena Saini Kallat's 'Woven Chronicles' uses telephone cables resembling barbed wire.
- IKEA and studio Better designed a 17-square-meter shelter that assembles in eight hours.
- The 'Liquid Traces' project by Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani documents a 2011 migrant boat tragedy.
- The exhibition runs until January 22, 2017 at MoMA in New York.
Entities
Artists
- Brendan Bannon
- Tobias Hutzler
- Reena Saini Kallat
- Charles Heller
- Lorenzo Pezzani
- Joseph Glidden
- Sean Anderson
Institutions
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- United Nations (UN)
- UNHCR
- IKEA
- Better Studio
- Frontex
- NATO
Locations
- New York
- United States
- Kenya
- Badaab
- Turkey
- Syria
- Kilis
- Libya
- Lampedusa
- Italy
- Malta
- Gulf of Sirte