“As an artist working on forced migration, I have come to understand—through personal experience—that no one can ever be completely certain of their home or sense of safety, and that waves of migration may one day affect everyone, even those considered the most secure. While I was working on migrants moving from Syria to Turkey and onward to Europe in 2015–16, I had no idea that just two years later I would be forced to leave Turkey myself.
In the new world order of today, thinking about the future fills me with anxiety. I believe that very soon we may all become displaced, forced to move from one place to another. Mobility, migration, homelessness, and estrangement will no longer be concerns only of the Global South, but will also shape the realities of those in the North.”
