Doctors Without Borders: Humans in Transit
This three-day exhibition at Plein presents the life stories of hundreds of migrants.
Humans in Transit is an exhibition by Doctors Without Borders, based on 400 testimonies from people on the move. Together with artists, actors, and filmmakers, it brings to life the stories behind migration and medical emergency aid.
The human stories behind migration and medical emergency aid
In places few people reach, detention centres, at sea, on the edges of Europe, stories unfold that often remain unseen. Humans in Transit makes this reality visible.
In this exhibition, Doctors Without Borders gives a face to the thousands of people held in detention centres in Libya. Migrants attempting to flee by sea are forcibly returned by the Libyan coastguard, preventing them from crossing the Mediterranean and reaching Europe. In these centres, Doctors Without Borders provides medical and psychological care.
Over the past ten years, staff from Doctors Without Borders have recorded the life stories of people on the move. Four hundred of these stories have been translated into image and narrative. Here, art becomes a way to make people visible and to bear witness to what would otherwise remain unseen. All artists, filmmakers, and actors involved in this exhibition have a background as refugees or migrants.
This exhibition has been realised independently of Fenix.
About Doctors Without Borders
Every year, thousands of people attempt to cross the Mediterranean. Countless lives are lost along the way: in 2022 alone, 2,367 people drowned. Many others are intercepted by the Libyan coastguard, supported with European funding. Teams from Doctors Without Borders provide medical emergency aid at sea from their own rescue ship, the Geo Barents. In 2022, they rescued 3,848 people. They also offer assistance to those held in Libyan detention centres and to people who manage to reach Europe.
Sea rescue operation by Doctors Without Borders