Road to exile is the name of this work by Barthélémy Toguo. It's so elegant, it looks so fragile and it refers to such a harsh reality. Bottles of vodka form the sea beneath the vessel. It instanly captivated me. It's part of the exhibition Islands never Found at the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.Before I found out what is was called, when I first looked at it, I immediately thought of Eldorado, by Laurent Gaudé, one of my favourite novels, on illegal immigration in the Mediterranean.
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