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Exhibition Detail Lucy Wood Vicini Lontani / Distant Neighbours Upstream Gallery Van Ostadestraat 294 1073 TW Amsterdam Netherlands May 14th, 2011 - July 2nd, 2011 Opening: May 14th, 2011 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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In her new show Vicini Lontani / Distant Neighbors at Upstream Gallery, Wood documents the migrants’ journey across unmapped territory between two politically opposite landscapes. North Africa and Lampedusa Island, Italy or ‘the port to Europe’ as the immigrants call it. According to Italy’s Interior minister Roberto Maroni, this year nearly 20.000 North African migrants have come ashore in Italy. The majority have arrived on Lampedusa, a tiny island with only 5.300 local inhabitants. The last 2 years Wood regularly travelled to Lampedusa to collect and document ‘migrant material’ through interviews, photography, film and found objects.