Geografias em movimento

"The constant displacements caused by political conflicts or economic forces redraw geography as we know it and put the very notion of belonging in check. The effects of loss and the search for a place--and the powerful symbolism involved in the metaphor of roots--are the prime concerns of Deslocamentos (Displacements), a project developed by the Brazilian artist and author Marie Ange Bordas over the course of ten years spent living and interacting with displaced people in camps, shelters, and townships in Africa and Europe. An artistic investigation and existential incursion, the work has materialized in a range of forms, including notebooks, installations, photographic series, encounters, reflections, and dialogues. In Geographies in Motion, her curatorial proposal for Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil 09, the artist-researcher patches together fragments from the project with others from the work of artists and thinkers who have influenced her way of looking at these issues and contributed to her investigations into mankind's capacity to redraw its own maps. ... What Bordas offers us here is a more-than-welcome perspective that moves beyond stereotypes to consider at length the diversity and richness of Africa, revealing, in the process, the full weight of the new thought emanating from the South"--Page 8.