exhibition catalogue
Isaac Julien
Western Union: Small Boats
Western Union: Small Boats is a reflection on migration and the hope for a better life. It tells the story about a generation of migrant North African workers who dream of a life across the sea. In this bleak era, after leaving the shores of home on small boats voluntarily but no less horrifically than their forbears, thousands wash up daily on Spanish and Italian beaches, their broken bodies an elegy to the centuries-old history of colonial enterprise.