Outbound Ticket

One ship, more than two thousand refugees. One story.

Through personal narratives and by uncovering the memory of her refugee grandfather, a young man of 19 when he arrived in Chile, the artist invites us to understand and acknowledge the experiences of other survivors of this human journey.

She makes expressive use of a clear and evocative language based on illustration, collage and creations in acrylic, punctuated with captions, documentary footage and photographs.

The exhibition Outbound Ticket by Cecilia Zabaleta, illustrator and the granddaughter of one of those Spanish refugees that disembarked from the Winnipeg, invites us to navigate through the channels of a persistent and uprooted migrant memory, using a visual and artistic language that reinforces the connection between concepts such as migration, roots, searching, solidarity, resilience, the value of life and the endless yearning for peace, in both the past and the present.