PANGEA 

Installation Exhibition

 About the Project

Pangea brought together artistic practice and geological thinking to reflect on migration as a process of continuous transformation. Rather than approaching migration only as a geographical displacement, the exhibition considered it as a movement that reshapes memory, identity, and belonging. Through installation, it invited viewers to experience migration as an ongoing condition rather than a single event.

Exhibition Statement 

Survival, a desire for a better life and experience can lead to immigration. Individual motivations are a way of distinguishing between human migration and geological and biological migration. Immigration is a twofold change; besides, it can transform social relations such as capital, knowledge, development and modernization, it transforms customs and traditions, changes in pyramid and genetic structure into populations.

Human migration for any reason is a unique experience and life for immigrants before and after this. However, all the emotional consequences of this transformation cannot be shared with those who have not experienced migration. Perhaps only can be spoken about the great and unknown soul that left this way and may be seen it from far. Pangea is a geological term and is called the first continent. A continent that was around 250 million years ago. Over the course of millions of years, this great continent has been broken and the continental shape of today has been created due to the movement of the sheets. This continental migration is still ongoing.

Arezu Zargar

Curatorial Framework

The exhibition approached migration through an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together geological time and human experience. Rather than presenting migration solely as a social phenomenon, it proposed a dialogue between natural transformation and human movement, suggesting that both unfold through continuous processes of separation, displacement, and reconstruction.