“By drawing our attention to long-standing migratory flows between Europe and North America, when numerous immigrants risked everything in pursuit of improved opportunities elsewhere, Petros simultaneously evokes the plight of contemporary African migrants fleeing difficult circumstances back home and aspiring for more prosperous lives in Europe.”

Exhibition: “’Untitled (Overlapping and intertwined territories that fall from view III)’ by Dawit L. Petros, Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, Toronto ON, April 2020 – April 2021.

Keywords: exhibitions, curatorial practice, art, contemporary, Dawit L. Petros, billboard, installation, East Africa, Eritrea, Italy, colonialism, migrations, refugees, Mediterranean, history, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Image: Toni Hafkenscheid and The Power Plant