OUT OF PLACE 2020
Exhibition view
Fabric, tablecloth, tree, rope
Dimensione variable
Shedhalle Zug
Out of Place arose from the artist’s experience in Cairo, where precariousness pervades both landscape and life. The work depicts a bundle of fabric placed beside a barren tree, a quiet yet poignant symbol of displacement and survival. The bundle, wrapped in textiles patterned after Egyptian domestic cloths used during Ramadan, alludes to the few belongings one can carry when forced to move.
By staging this humble assemblage, Jacomella Bonola reclaims the trope of the traveler’s bundle found in European visual memory, transforming it into a universal emblem of migration. The piece meditates on home, exile, and the persistent human instinct to gather what is essential when the world becomes unstable.
Credits: © Patricia Jacomella Bonola © Dominik Zietlow