Art Space Pythagorion, Samos, is pleased to announce its exhibition for the summer, A World Not Ours. The exhibition borrows its title from the award-winning homonymous 2012 film by director Mahdi Fleifel, which in turn borrows its name from a book by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani (1936–72). The film is a portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon, while the book speaks about diaspora and the search for identity. The exhibition takes place in a location that has been at the heart of the refugee crisis that began in 2015, largely as a result of the war in Syria. Samos is one of the three Greek islands (together with Lesbos and Kos) closest to the Turkish coast, and as such has been at the crux of this humanitarian tragedy that has been played out on the region’s shores. Given the highly charged location, it is vital that an art exhibition here should address this situation, which has been an unremitting reality on the island, and a pressing, unresolved issue for the whole of Europe. The exhibition will focus on the issue of the refugee crisis and forced migration by bringing together a group of artists, photographers, filmmakers and activists who offer reactions, reflections, and insights on the subject. Bringing together diverse practices from installation, performance, photography, film, video and photojournalism, the participants in the exhibition move beyond one-sided and standardised media representations of the crisis, and acknowledge the complex roots of one of the most pressing issues of our time.
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