Susan Harbage Page

Since 2007 I have been walking the river border in East Texas along the Rio Grande photographing the objects people leave behind as they flee their homes, often due to economic necessity, violence, or climate change. The stories attached to the objects are unknown, but the message that these individuals are risking their lives in hopes of creating new homes in a safer place here in the United States is clear. 

I have just returned from fieldwork along the Evros River which separates Turkey from Greece. I found the commonalities in the bordering practices along the two river borders striking. Here are a few examples of the inflatable boats used by refugees to pass from one nation to another.

June 13, 2020

Everyone Performance, Enez Kalesi Turkey

This summer I began fieldwork on the Evros River Border Crossing: Border Biopolitics and Embodied Cartography project supported by a Pogue Senior Research Faculty leave from UNC-Chapel Hill. The research  enlarges the scope of my work to create a comparative transnational discourse about two rivers which have become the locus of bordering between nations, the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo between the U.S.

What happened with couples during lockdown? 

This new project I am working on in conjunction with Laura V. d B. Faccini, Windmill Art Power Plant and Sincreses combines a look at relationships, covid, and home. I'm curious as to how concepts of home have shifted in the last few years.

I invite you to participate!

The exhibition will take place at Sincresis Spazio D'Arte, Empoli, Italy

I will be on site in Empoli September 15 and 16. Hope to see you there.