Exhibition - Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined

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.

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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