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Specially produced for the Herbstsalon, Alfredo Jaar’s new work (Kindness) of (Strangers) confronts visitors with a largescale, complex arrangement of neon arrows which, under their seemingly confusing lay-out, replicate a familiar phenomenon: the movement of people, from South to North. A small adjunctive chart acts as key and reveals that the arrows correspond to the main travel routes of migrants in 2015. The scale and complexity of these movements across Europe highlight the extent of the current crises as much as the perpetual flux and extraordinary journey of migrants fleeing war and persecution, where they encounter kindness and its contrary. In the words of Alfredo Jaar, »in this chaotic map, we are all strangers looking for kindness.«
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https://www.berliner-herbstsalon.de/en/zweiter-berliner-herbstsalon/kuenstlerinnen/alfredo-jaar (09.03.2022)