Routes
In a huge spreadsheet, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) states that between 1 January 2014 and 6 April 2020, 17,967 people died or went missing on three of Europe’s main migration routes. With the installation ‘Routes’, Nathaniel White documents this tragedy. Collages show a satellite image of each location reported in the spreadsheet, representing each lost life. This creates a pixilated landscape, death at scale.
Alongside the monumental collages are quieter photographs, individual moments of a funeral, of mourning and remembrance. In these images, we see the traces that these moments have left in our landscapes. The nameless recorded in graveyard registers, ground dug and re-dug, people whom after their death have been given permanent status in countries perhaps otherwise hostile, their visas carved in stone.
