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Body heat and crying room: Cuban artist addresses migration crisis with Tate Modern installation

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LONDON Oct 01, 2018 - 12:00 am GMT+3
 Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera (C) lies with volunteers on her installation during its unveiling in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London, Britain, October 1, 2018. (EPA Photo)
Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera (C) lies with volunteers on her installation during its unveiling in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London, Britain, October 1, 2018. (EPA Photo)
by Oct 01, 2018 12:00 am

Cuban artist Tania Bruguera's new exhibition looking at neighborly behavior and the movement of people will leave you in tears.

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.

Volunteers stand after lying down on the heat sensitive Hyundai Commission artwork, Our Neighbours, by Cuban artist Tania Bruguera in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, in London, Britain, October 1, 2018. (REUTERS Photo)"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."

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