Exhibition on view: from April 24 to June 2, 2019
Exhibition Curator: Nadia Molek in Miha Zobec
Emigrants from the territory of present-day Slovenia migrated to Argentina in different waves. There is a common belief that transnational connections are a modern phenomenon, representing intense interactions between migrants and their relatives in today’s world.
The exhibition aims to emphasize that such connections existed long before the forms of communication brought about by the revolution of the World Wide Web.
By presenting the communication between emigrants and their relatives, the exhibition seeks to highlight the continuous contact between the two worlds and the fact that both those who left and those who stayed behind led interconnected lives despite the vast distance separating them. It wasn’t only the stories from home that filled the daily lives of the emigrants; the home villages lived in eager anticipation of news about their members living across the ocean.
Migration processes cannot be understood as simple narratives that begin in the homeland and end with adaptation to the host society. Communication among migrants over time demonstrates that migration is an open and non-linear flow with far-reaching consequences for all involved, including those who did not emigrate.