MAKING PLACES INBETWEEN—Resisting and Inhabiting Border Regimes
BOOK LAUNCH + EXHIBITION + VINYL RELEASED
(September 2026)Melanie Garland in conversations with Elizabeth Andrade, Adolfo Estalella, Davide Franceschini, Inti Gallardo,hn. lyonga, Carla J. Maier, Cristian Ochoa, Kathy O'Hare and Myriam Perrot.
The book (Open Access) can be downloaded in ︎ transcript Verlag
︎ CURATORIAL TEXT
Making Places Inbetween is an exhibition-as-book in which chapters are transformed into collaborative artworks. Each station in the exhibition corresponds to a central theme explored in the Making Places Inbetween book, allowing visitors to experience these ideas through visual, sonic, and participatory encounters. Narratives of placemaking in Italy, France, and Chile unfold through the voices of communities on the move, resisting and inhabiting border regimes.
©Pablo Hassmann
©Pablo Hassmann
Inspired by the oceans that connect these places, the exhibition-as-book draws on the idea of archipelagic encounters—inviting visitors to navigate a constellation of stories, fragments, and moments that flow across borders. Rather than presenting isolated sites, Making Places Inbetween foregrounds the interwoven experiences, solidarities, and creative acts of migration, tracing the invisible threads that link the communities of the Dzjangal, Tiburtina, and Los Arenales. In this archipelagic perspective that informs both the book and the exhibition, migration is viewed as interconnected crossings shaped by water, memory, and movement.
Alongside these narratives, the exhibition also addresses the challenges of researching migration flows and the complexities of representation at the intersection of art and anthropology, theory and practice. By transforming book chapters into sensory encounters, Making Places Inbetween turns Bardo Projektraum into a space for migratory reflection, collaboration, and creative exchange across disciplines and backgrounds. This project invites to open up alternative ways to think with and through migration, solidarity, and urban life—inviting audiences to engage with the resistances and aspirations found in places inbetween.
©Pablo Hassmann
Making Places Inbetween is a book project by Melanie Garland. The exhibition is curated by Alejandra Atalah with spatial design collaboration by Francisco Mondaca Molina and documentation by Pablo Hassmann. Presented at Bardo Projektraum, a project by Karne Kunst gUG, under the artistic direction of Marcela Villanueva. Making Places Inbetween is supported by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Transcript Verlag. Bardo Projektraum is supported by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt des Landes Berlin.
