Cyril de Commarque, Migrants.
The 20th century could also be described as a century of borders. Progress allows better border control and migrants have even more difficulty rebuilding their lives; they are penned in, locked out, controlled or, otherwise, victims of the system. ‘Migrants’ focuses on the psychological consequences, the feelings, the suppression, the painful inner processes. The form of Migrants is inspired by The Raft of the Medusa by Gericault. As well as a simple
message in a bottle – an act of despair or of hope, a rebellion against the silence. The base is a boat (with a rubber boat deck) to which bottles are tied using cables. Inside each of them beats a membrane (moulded on an actual heart). The sound of each bottle is a voice and, altogether, the ensemble is drowned out by the beating hearts.