CO-MOVERE (Worldwide, 2009)

For five years Marie Ange Bordas shared her life with people who had fled their war-torn homelands. She lived with them in refugee camps, ghettos and shelters, from Kenya to Sri Lanka, from Paris to Johannesburg. She sat with them at the breakfast table and shared life stories. She was touched by some, irritated by others, a few became friends, and one a lover. CO-MOVERE arose from the series of workshops and exhibitions that Bordas made in cooperation with the affected communities. The title is an interplay of the Latin commovere (to move emotionally), from co-movere (to move house together) and the English commotion: an uproar, a violent disruption of public order. These are all elements that recur in Bordas’s work and that force us to reflection and discussion.