Displacement

“In the zoo the animals are often thoughtful, remembering all that needs to be done, how in the jungle some things still need fixing, and what they want to teach their little ones, that in the jungle there is space and food for all”.

Exile is a prison without walls. Displacement and forced migration inflict the punishment of a lack of permanent belonging. It reaches into the future, but also into the past. The country, the territory, the home which is left behind, disappears and becomes a place to which one can never go back to, even if one is able to return. Oceans, deserts and mountains become borders which separate, and also mass graves of the fallen. These stolen lives cannot be accounted for. But there are those who humanize and suture these experiences, fighters who create new antifamilies, survivors who sustain each other, who share their stories. Stories which are repeated, which happen and continue to occur, and because of this they need to be heard.

Bélgica

Castro (Chile, 1957)

Por el derecho de vivir en mi patria

2022

Retazos de telas cosidas (arpillera) y papel impreso con mensaje (bolsillo en trasera del textil)

156,5 x 132,4 x 3,6 cm

Colección MSSA

Teresa Montiel (Chile, 1942)