
Odyssey
2017
This screenprint presents a powerful visual narrative of displacement and migration through a series of horizontal bands depicting scenes of conflict, movement, and human struggle. The composition layers military machinery and warfare imagery in the upper sections with increasingly densely packed groups of figures walking, gathering, and crossing borders throughout the middle and lower portions. Barbed wire fences and barriers appear at the bottom, accompanied by text fragments that underscore themes of exclusion and resistance. The monochromatic palette and woodcut-like aesthetic create a stark, documentary quality that transforms personal journeys into collective testimony. The work serves as a contemporary meditation on humanitarian crises and the human cost of displacement.
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Lot 192 in EHC Essentials: Modern and Contemporary on Artsy (May 19, 2026). Edition of 1.
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EHC Essentials: Modern and Contemporary
May 19, 2026
Lot 192
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