Emily Jacir
’s (b: Mediterranean; lives and works between Bethlehem and Rome) interdisciplinary practice spans film, photography, installation, performance, sound, and text. Her work explores both personal and collective movement through time and public space, examining its implications on the physical and social experience of trans-mediterranean geographies and temporalities. Through rigorous historical and archival research, Jacir’s layered and resonant body of work is rooted in gathering, community, and in social affiliations. For the last twenty years, she has been working in southern Italy, primarily in Salento but also in Basilicata and Sicily. Her most recent work, We Ate the Wind, features a large cinematic installation that combines new and archival material, addressing questions of visibility and invisibility, proximity and distance, hospitality and exclusion, exploring specific migration policies and their consequences on individuals and communities.