The photography exhibition OUT OF FRAME – Rethinking the visual narratives of migrations in Europe inaugurates Tuesady Dicember 19, at 18.30 p.m., at Galería Nueva, Madrid.

The exhibition is part of  “Bridges: Assessing the production and impact of migration narratives”, a project that examines the causes and consequences of migration narratives in a context of rising politicisation about and ideological polarisation. 

Focused on six European countries – France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Great Britain – Bridges adopts an interdisciplinary, co- produced approach developed by a heterogenous twelve-partner consortium made up of universities, think tanks, research centres, cultural associations and civil societies. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

The exhibition presented in Madrid – the second stage of a traveling project that will visit other European capitals – examines the representation of migratory phenomena in Europe through sette work of award-winning international photographers and the chronology of the main media reports.
There is also a selection of the most representative publications of migratory events that occurred in the six countries examined in the years from 2015 to 2022, to show the narrative model that accompanied these events.

“The dominant news reports – declares Giulia Tornari, exhibition’s curator – tell of a Europe besieged and invaded at its borders by thousands of migrants, of walls and border controls, of boats full of migrants ready to depart from the coasts of North Africa, of the opening of new routes and new migratory flows, of asylum seekers and economic migrants, of shipwrecks and deaths. Within the framework of these journalistic accounts, the photographs illustrating the articles often serve to reinforce and legitimize the textual content”.

Journalistic stories about migration tend to depersonalize migrants. We typically don’t know their personal stories or even the context of their migration, nor do we know the hopes that fuel their departure and their dreams for the future.

Out of Frame aims to change this point of view, shifting the frame of reference outside the framework within which our perception of migration is accustomed to dealing with.

“ What characterises and connects the vision and the projects of these photographers– continues the curator Giulia Tornari –is the necessity to raise awareness and understanding of the migrants’ conditions and to present them as a subject that acts in a stratified and often adverse context that can be reversed to become positive and integrating. By presenting projects that investigate the theme of migration with different linguistic and photographic approaches, the exhibit aims to stimulate the viewer to reflect on the role that photography plays as an important tool in understanding reality”.

PHOTOGRAPHERS
The exhibit presents the works of six artists who have examined contemporary migratory phenomena placing the focus of their photographic projects on migrants as their subject.
Miia Autio, Felipe Romero Beltran, Samuel Gratacap, Alessio Mamo, Alisa Martinova, and Aubrey Wade are well-known and respected for their professional commitment and have published their works in important international publications. Each of them has distinguished their work through the choice of their subjects and a personal and specific visual language. 
The partecipatory project Non you see me Moria is a call to all European citizens to take action in support of migrants detained in camps.

The exhibition will remain open until January 20, 2024.

18.30 p.m.
Galería Nueva
C/Doctor Fourquet, 10 Madrid

Information:
Valeria De Berardinis
v.deberardinis@zona.org