When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art | ICA/Boston

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 Shonib