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Her interactive installation at London's Tate
Modern features a crying room, where a menthol-based organic
compound fills the room and makes visitors cry in a bid to
create empathy with the strangers around them.
In a second room, visitors lie down and leave impressions of
their bodies on a heat-sensitive floor. All the imprints
together, seen from above, look like the face of a refugee.
"There is a big area that requires people working together with
their neighbors, the whole piece is about how can we change the
idea of community," Bruguera told Reuters on Monday.
"You are not together because you have the same agenda you are
together because you are people and you should work together for
the good of everybody.
"This is a very big public moment, then you have a private
moment in a room where you can cry and feel for others."
The title of the exhibition changes every day, based on
International Organization for Migration data on the ever
growing number of people who move or attempt to move location.
"The title is a number," said Bruguera, who is renowned for her
work looking at migration.
"It is understanding we live in a moment of movement, constant
human movement and to understand every situation has two sides."
(Reporting by Jayson Mansaray; Writing by Patrick Johnston in
London; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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