Wura-Natasha Ogunji

Fixed Things and Flying Things the body in parts, here and there the world in parts Atlantic Lace, Balogun Market Sound man hears the wind We've passed this way before (Duck, don't stumble. They sold us before and they'll sell us again.) Sound Man sees the wind Follow me closely now

Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s Fixed Things and Flying Things… is a drawing of cutout figures on architectural tracing paper. It takes a statement by Leoluca Orlando, the Mayor of Palermo, as a point of departure for the work. Stating, “migration problems can and should find their solution within the affirmation of ‘freedom of movement’ as the new inalienable right of humans. No human has chosen or chooses the place where they were born. Everyone should instead be recognized as having the right to choose where to live, the right to live better and not to die.” She re-imagines the idea and struggles of feeling at home in the context of the human proclivity for living in constant search for greener pastures. In her words: “I am interested in how we make home outside of, and beyond sites of origin. For me, there is a constant negotiation between belonging, which might suggest stasis, and change, which allows for an expanded sense of self, family, home, and language. I wonder if a quality of being human is a never-ending sense of exile. Is it possible that we are always looking for that perfect place to land, and that we actually never arrive—that history and circumstance are forever interrupting this journey, so that movement is all we have?”