Between Home and Homeland – Liminality in Migratory Aesthetics / Art of Migration, Migration in Art

The lecture ‘Between Home and Homeland – Liminality in Migratory Aesthetics’ will be held as the accompanying programme of the exhibition ‘Art of Migration, Migration in Art’ in the Gallery of Matica Srpska on 8 April at 7 p.m.

Sandro Debono, art historian and museum thinker, will talk about the phenomenon of migrations through the analysis of Marc Chagall’s artwork ‘Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers’. Chagall’s self-portrait unequivocally presents complex visual evidence of migratory aesthetics. When it comes to migratory art, it can be interpreted as a case of a complex narrative of identity or as an example of a transient state, which is best described by the word liminality. It is the visual clarity of this portrait that leads to a better understanding of what migratory aesthetics represents and the ways in which liminality can contribute to its understanding, recognition and interpretation.