Arrows Without Bodies is an environmental sound/video installation incorporating the key issues pertaining to the subject of the so-called ‘illegal’ immigration, combining practices and techniques from artistic areas ranging from performance, video and sound, and installation. This project has brought together the Spanish London-based artist Juan delGado and a group of artists from Spain, Iran, Turkey and Morocco with a genuine personal interest in the subject.

“The decision to leave tears me apart, it burns when I remember all my loved ones although I have left, my heart is still back there, shrunk. It’s hard to accept the emptiness caused by its absence. I want to find that heart shrunk by separation, to speak of its pain and its longing every one who has left their homeland yearns for the moment of reunion”.

– Jalal al-Din Rumi

Arrows without Bodies is a video installation produced in response to this reality. Using a ship container as a metaphor to address the phenomenon of how many of these people have become double victims of an increasing market of trafficking in which local mafias charged them a huge amount of money to smuggle them into Europe.

In this journey, many of them will die in the desperate attempt for a safe life away from the horrors they have left behind.

Exhibition
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