About this Event
Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined is an exhibition built around ideas and ideals of identity, belonging, and freedom of movement.
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. In addition, another 16 artists’ books were curated from the collection to bring additional perspectives.
As a whole, these 28 artists’ books take us around the world and into the future, documenting the promises and limitations of the passport, depending much on who has one and what nationality or group has conferred belonging.
Exhibition Homepage of Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined
Exhibition Catalogue available at BIMA Store!
Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined - Artist Panel Part One:
Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined - Artist Panel Part Two: (Upcoming event)
Commissioned Works
Shana Agid, Forgeries
Roberto Benavidez, Illuminated Passport (featured above image)
Mare Blocker, Hippocampus Hippocampus
Ben Blount, Passportal (featured above image)
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 (featured above image)
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 (featured above image)
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
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, 550 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island, United States
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