FINDING HOME

“What does it mean to belong?” is one of the compelling questions posed by the Harvard Art Museums’ special exhibition, “Crossing Lines, Constructing Home.” In a short video series, members of the community visit the exhibition and offer their take on what belonging means to them. Meet Marina Krickler, who comes from Canada and now lives in Ashland, a town west of Boston. A musician and educator, she has played with the Refugee Orchestra Project. - Music: Cicle Gerano by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

What does it mean to be uprooted from culture and home? On view September 6, 2019–January 5, 2020, our new exhibition “Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art” opens up new ways of understanding the immigrant experience. Curated by Makeda Best and Mary Schneider Enriquez, the exhibition features works by a global community of contemporary artists, including Do Ho Suh, Emily Jacir, Richard Misrach, and Graciela Iturbide. — Music: Li-Fonte by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

The exhibition When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, on view Oct 23, 2019–Jan 26, 2020 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, considers how contemporary artists are responding to the migration, immigration, and displacement of peoples today. The exhibition borrows its title, with permission, from a poem by Warsan Shire, a Somali-British poet who gives voice to the experiences of refugees. Through artworks made since 2000 by twenty artists from more than a dozen countries — including Colombia, Cuba, France, India, Iraq, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States — this exhibition highlights diverse artistic responses to migration ranging from personal accounts to poetic meditations, and features a range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, painting, and video. Artists in the exhibition include Kader Attia, Tania Bruguera, Isaac Julien, Hayv Kahraman, Reena Saini Kallat, Richard Mosse, Carlos Motta, Yinka Shonibare, Xaviera Simmons, and Do-Ho Suh, among others. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with an essay by Eva Respini and Ruth Erickson and texts by prominent scholars Aruna D’Souza, Okwui Enwezor, Thomas Keenan, Peggy Levitt, and Uday Singh Mehta, among others.