[Trans]Migration

Esin Turan and Rahman Hak-Hagir
curated by Julia Allerstorfer

OPENING
May 7, 2020 5pm at hinterland and online
(the gallery opens as usual at 3pm)

We have enough space outside for everyone waiting to enter the exhibition. The platform for Krongarten 2020 is available and seats to wait are there… “COVID19 waiting room”.

As an alternative concept of spatial mobility, transmigration differs from the classic type of migration usually associated with a long-term stay in a single country. Transmigrants often move between different locations, have multiple points of reference and navigate plurilocal social spaces that transgress national borders. These emerging “traveling cultures” (J. Clifford) and “cultures in-between” (H. K. Bhabha) promote a way of life that opposes static rootedness as well as national affiliation and encourages hybrid identities.

In contemporary art, the diverse experiences of migrants are manifested within artist practices that consciously incorporate various aspects of life between different cultural contexts and their respective reference systems. In bringing together the artists Esin Turan and Rahman Hak-Hagir, the exhibition [TRANS]MIGRATION unites two positions that simultaneously consider topics such as localization, globalization and transcultural living- and working conditions in a playful and serious way. Their photographs, video works and installations invite us to explore the broad spectrum of meaning and aesthetic representation of transmigration in the visual arts.