Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined

Twelve artists were commissioned by the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection to take inspiration from the passport and other travel documents to create an artist book. Another 16 artists’ books were curated from the collection to bring additional perspectives, taking around the world, into the past and into the future, offering an incisive look at the promises and limitations of the passport, often reflecting the power of possession and the nationality or group that has conferred belonging. An exhibition catalog will be available in the BIMA Museum Store.

Commissioned Works
Shana Agid, Forgeries
Roberto Benavidez, Illuminated Passport
Mare Blocker, Hippocampus Hippocampus
Ben Blount, Passportal
Sandra C. Fernandez, Pass [puertos] / A Journey Inscribed
Sun Young Kang and Stephanie Adams-Santos, Passport of Witness
Amos Kennedy, A Slave Pass
Kitty Koppelman, Gender Passport
Mita Mahato, TROPSSAP
Asuka Ohsawa, The Secret Aviary
Shu-Ju Wang, Passport
Carletta Carrington Wilson, Passport to a Past Port

Selections from the Collection
Golnar Adili, She Feels Your Absence Deeply
Islam Aly, Mare Nostrum
Sarah Bryant, It Is Mandatory to Complete this Section
Alisa Golden & Dianne Ayres, Letters of Transit: Bird Passports
Kimi Hanauer, Calling All Denizens
KaKeArt: Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner, Whereas, We Declare
Lisa Kokin, Passport to Lesbianism
Lesia Maruschak, This Land
Sauda Mitchell, Voyage
Rodrigo Moreira, Department of N.S.A.
Robbin Ami Silverberg, Identity
Anneli Skaar, Nansen’s Pastport
An original Nansen’s Passport
Alan Sobrino, Errant Passport
Delia Touché, Home is Where the Buffalo Used to Be
Beata Wehr, Paszport
Beata Wehr, How to Connect Two Different Wor(l)ds in Our Nomadic Life
Philip Zimmermann, Sanctus Sonorensis