VOIX DU MONDE/DÉLOCALISATION (France, 2006-2007)

Year in and year out the worldwide stream of migrants – legal and illegal – becomes greater. In 2006 Anabell Guerrero began her project VOIX DU MONDE/DÉLOCALISATION in the French city of Envry. More than fifty nationalities live alongside one another in Envry, an ever-changing combination of faces, cultures and traditions. On his long journey, Guerrero notes, the emigrant often takes along nothing but himself: his own eyes, his own hands, his own skin. Guerrero approaches the individual as a continent in himself – a place with a history. By photographing details of the body and sometimes combining them with geographic allusions, she creates a new geography that opens a door to an inner world. In this way she approaches the issue of immigration not as a sociologist or journalist, but attempts to be ‘an archivist of the unseen’.