In our era of global displacement, this exhibition – co-presented by The Substation and Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) – brings together seven distinctive voices from Southeast Asia to explore the lived collective realities and personal landscapes that emerge through experiences of migration. Through storytelling, audience activation and a call to critical awareness, each artist engages viewers to interrogate facets of the migrant, diasporic, or cultural displacement experience, shaped by geopolitical turmoil and climate disruption.
They collectively testify that migration is more than an individual plight, but rather a fundamental collective phenomenon that emerges from feelings of alienation and loss while drawing on our innate capacity for adaptation, home building, and connection across differences.
Between Lands: Migration as Transformation gives rise to new hybrid identities from which emerge new artistic languages and shared narratives that are respectful of diversity. Can these artistic practices help us think through prevailing feelings of uprootedness, dissolution of cultural bonds, loss of a shared world? In an eraof global mobility and amid unprecedented interconnection, can these artists’ perspectives elicit our more thoughtful and compassionate action?
