How architecture, art, and design have addressed contemporary notions of shelter, as seen through migration and global refugee emergencies, is explored in the exhibition “Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter”, on view at The Museum of Modern Art.
Insecurities
On view at MoMA, “Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter” explores how architecture, art and design have addressed the contemporary notion of living.
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- 04 October 2016
- New York
Recent United Nations figures suggest that more than 60 million individuals worldwide are refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons. Where borders once marked the peripheries of nations, today, manifold territories on sea and land have blurred one’s potential confinement within spaces that are determined by external powers.
Under these conditions, shelter has been redefined through constant movement or escape. By extension, refugee camps, while once considered to be temporary, are no longer so, and have become a locus through which to examine how human rights intersect with and complicate the making of cities.
“Insecurities” raises questions regarding how the design and representation of shelter as a source of security and stability ultimately reflects how refugees are living in permanent upheaval today.
until 22 January 2017
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter
Curators: Sean Anderson with Arièle Dionne-Krosnick
MoMA
11 West 53 Street, New York