HOPE
“…and meanwhile, we men, touch the water, struggling, and hoping, we touch the sea, hoping.”
When Pablo Neruda wrote his ‘Ode to Hope’ using an image of men at sea, weekly news of refugees in undersized boats across the Mediterranean were a distant picture.
But the past years with ongoing wars, conflicts and economic crises in Africa and the Greater Middle East have shown this picture to be a very realistic and permanent one.
While the stories to take the risk of crossing are as diverse as identities aboard, one word connects them all – HOPE. While many make it ashore, too many are taken by the sea.
A salvaged boat from a Berlin riverbank has stranded on native Lampedusa soil, where the sun is burning Neruda’s powerful words into the weathered hull to commemorate the tragic destiny of the missing ones.
Dimensions: 90 x 800 x 500 cm
Material: wood, sand, steel
Year: 2022
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