Projects on art, vulnerability and human dignity

Two projects that explore and articulate the relation between the arts and human dignity in the context of vulnerable states and precarious environments.

What is the relation of vulnerability to precarity, fragility and risk in the making of art? How might art make visible vulnerable states and subjects in ways that challenge conventional aesthetic, political and social categories, subverting existing hierarchies of power while staging quiet, yet potent, modes of dissent?

A dialogue I convened with artists Lola Frost and Edmund Clark at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies, Landscapes of Vulnerability. More here

A series of portraits I produced in camps in Greece in collaboration with refugees fleeing conflict and gifted to them, supported by the Impossible Project / Polaroid.

They are the basis of an exhibition-essay I am writing titled “Disappearing Identities: failure in medium and political process”.