Touristic Route/Survival Route

Touristic Route and Survival Route, 2017.

Acrylic paint and felt pen on rescue blankets.
210 × 160 cm (82 × 63 in) each.

Solo exhibition They used to sing,
Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels, 2020.

Contemporary drawing art fair Drawing Now,
Carreau du Temple, Paris, 2019.

Exhibition Cartographic Anxiety, Collective Hic Sunt, Arondit contemporary art center, Paris, 2018.

Solo exhibition Travelers and Strangers,
Kentler International Drawing Space, New York, 2017.

Private collection, Belgium (Touristic Route).

Silver side (Touristic Route): In 2000, Lucie revisits all the places and countries she went through between 1938 — when she fled Austria at 12 years old with her family because they were Jewish — and 1951, when she left France to NY on a steamer.

Golden side (Survival Route): In 2014, Suyapa flees Honduras, crosses Guatemala and Mexico on foot and on the top of merchandise trains. She arrives a month later in Houston, Texas, after an extremely dangerous journey.

(Text adapted from Camilla Panhard's book, No women's land, with her kind permission.)

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