Linocut Prints and Exile(s)

Abstract

For migrancy and exile … involves a ‘discontinuous state of being’, a form of picking a quarrel with where you come from. It has thereby been transformed ‘into a potent, even enriching, motif of modern culture’. … Borders and barriers which enclose us within [the] safety of familiar territory can also become prisons, and are often defended beyond reason or necessity. Exiles cross borders, break barriers of thought and experience.