Schengen's Kit: Rules and Advices for the Survival of Refugees at Sea

Schengen's Kit: Rules and Advices for the Survival of Refugees at Sea

Artists' Books--Belgium--Specimens

Refugees In Art

Survival

Death In Art

This expanded definition of an artists' book consists of a set of laminated instructions adhered to a funeral body bag. Kermaire's work often focuses on social issues"," and this work came from her travels to two Greek islands that are focal points in the refugee crisis. While the residents of Lesbos Island have provided compassionate assistance to refugees"," many still drowned in the surrounding waters.

Inscription: Signed in blue ink by artist on Colophon and hand numbered below.

Colophon reads: I was with my sailing boat in the Lesbos ... and Leros Island[s] ... 2015.

Edition size: 300

Kermaire, Christine

Self-published

Charleroi, Belgium

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Materials/Printing: zippered black cloth bag, red cloth poppies, 8 laminated panels of text.

Structure/Folds: unbound work.

Dimensions: 31 x 23 x 1 cm (closed), 153 x 58 x 1 cm (open)

artists' books (books)

Twenty-first century (dates CE)

2015

The original object was photographed with a NIKON D300 digital camera at 300 ppi as a JPEG file format. The JPEG file was then modified in Adobe Photoshop.

Photographer Marie A. Andrews

4 total views: front view, overhead view