Unfolding Lands

Unfolding Lands - Art, Migration and the Cosmologies We Carry

Unfolding Lands is a curatorial research project exploring how artists map the movement of people, memory, and cosmologies across time and geography.

While migration is often understood as the physical movement of bodies across borders, it is also the movement of knowledge systems, spiritual worlds, and ancestral memory. Communities carry with them cosmologies—ways of understanding land, time, origin, and belonging. Through artistic practice, these invisible worlds become visible.

Since 2016, our work has focused on the cultural narratives surrounding migration and transnational identity. Early projects such as Good Night and Good Luck explored themes of displacement and belonging, forming the foundation for a long-term investigation into how movement shapes cultural identity.

This research has developed through conversations and collaborations with artists whose practices engage with history, borders, and memory, including multidisciplinary artist Ngozi Schommers and visual artist and researcher Stefano Serretta, whose work reframes narratives of power, migration, and historical archives.

Unfolding Lands functions both as an exhibition platform and as a growing archive. Through exhibition visits, artist conversations, and visual documentation, the project traces artistic practices that engage with migration, diaspora, cosmology, and cultural memory.

The long-term vision is to develop a digital and physical archive documenting artists who explore these themes. This evolving collection will form the basis for a publication and curatorial resource that reflects the complexity of migration as lived experience, historical process, and cosmological journey.

In a world shaped by movement and transformation, Unfolding Lands asks how art can serve as a form of cartography—mapping stories that are often invisible within dominant historical narratives.

Through this project, we honour artists whose work makes visible the connections between land, memory, and the worlds we carry with us.