The Rescue, 2015 is an alternative representation of migrants through a symbolic act of rescue and re-appropriation of photographs and personal belongings lost or discarded by migrants after their arrival at Lesbos, Greece, having made the six-mile sea crossing from Turkey by small boats and overcrowded rubber rafts..
Letters, ID photos, passports, notes, and other belongings were found on the rocky shores, among the vegetation or along the dusty roads that migrants walk to reach the nearest refugee camp.
The findings were photographed in the place of the discovery and on the surfaces available in the immediate vicinity.
Every finding is a fragment of life and identity. Each one evokes the persisting link and connections that exist between a past life -that life that once seemed unbreakable- and an uncertain future.
Each one deserves a rescue.
This work arises from the need to explore unconventional and non-spectacular approaches to the thematic of migration.
Letters, ID photos, passports, notes, and other belongings were found on the rocky shores, among the vegetation or along the dusty roads that migrants walk to reach the nearest refugee camp.
The findings were photographed in the place of the discovery and on the surfaces available in the immediate vicinity.
Every finding is a fragment of life and identity. Each one evokes the persisting link and connections that exist between a past life -that life that once seemed unbreakable- and an uncertain future.
Each one deserves a rescue.
This work arises from the need to explore unconventional and non-spectacular approaches to the thematic of migration.