From yet another perspective, it can also speak to those seeking intentional displacement. The ones who chose to leave their countries and homes, buy a one-way passage and leave life as they know it, often slowly leaving behind the pieces that connected them to their homelands. This displacement of culture and self, whether forcibly, naturally, or intentionally, forms a connection bound by artworks like these that transcend cultural boundaries, realities, and generations. Modisakeng reflects on the poetic opening of Passage in Venice, “This work premiered at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. The screening opened to the public on the 10th of May, which happened to fall on a full moon during an altar lunar where the city of Venice gets overflooded due to heightened tides. So, viewers would enter the immersive installation where they would watch the 18 min film, which revolves around a sinking boat, then spill out into the streets of Venice where the water had risen. I think this experience made the work memorable.”
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