The Sink Without Trace exhibition presented work by eighteen artists on the subject of migrant deaths at sea. The exhibition included artists from Denmark, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iraqi Kurdistan, Israel, Italy, Slovakia, South Africa, Sudan and the UK- currently living in France, Germany, Italy and the UK.
The artists included: Behjat Omer Abdulla, Broomberg & Chanarin, Victoria Burgher, Max Hirzel, Mariwan Jalal, Tamara Kametani, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, Gil Mualem-Doron, Forensic Oceanography, Maya Ramsay, Mario Rossi, Shorsh Saleh, Aida Silverstri, Art Refuge UK, Nathaniel White, Lucy Wood, Dagmawi Yimer.
More on the artists can be seen here: www.sinkwithouttrace.com/artists
Through drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video works, Sink Without Trace offered alternative perspectives on a subject that is often only presented through the eyes of the media and politicians.
The exhibition included found objects from shipwrecked migrant boats in Sicily, anonymous drawings made on migrant boats and works made by unaccompanied minors in transit camps in Calais.
Sink Without Trace also included photographic documentation of the forensic project relating to the shipwrecked migrant boat that was displayed at the Venice Biennale in 2019.
As part of Sink Without Trace, 'T06411' a rescued North African migrant boat was moored close to the gallery on Regent’s Canal, Kings Cross for public dispaly during Refugee Week (17- 23 June).
Sink Without Trace also presented a public programme of events in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts, Refugee Week and Westminster University.
Proceeds from sales of exhibition catalogues will go to Alarm Phone https://alarmphone.org/en/about/ The catalogue is now available as a PDF below.
www.sinkwithouttrace.com/post/sink-without-trace-catalogue
Interviews with some of the SWT artists can be read here: www.sinkwithouttrace.com/blog/categories/artist-interviews
An impact study of the exhibition will be conducted as with the 'Sink Without Trace' exhibition, which was published by Westminster University and can be read here:
www.westminster.ac.uk/research/impact/helping-migrants-to-reclaim-their-narrative-through-art
Some of the press relating to the exhibitin can be seen here: www.sinkwithouttrace.com/press and here www.sinkwithouttrace.com/blog
Sink Without Trace was funded by Arts Council England and curated by Federica Mazzara and Maya Ramsay.