No Place Like
Part of the Remittance exhibition
15. 9. 2026–3. 1. 2027
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Curated by: Trisha Lagaso Goldberg
Artists: Pio Abad, Bhen Alan, Xyza Cruz Bacani, Victoria Grace Canby, ETC. Magazine, Frances Wadsworth Jones, Dejan Kaludjerović, Guadalupe Maravilla, Stephanie Misa, Rayyane Tabet, Keith Tallett, Jenifer K Wofford
Photos: Mel Taing / Mead Art Museum
The installation No Place Like turns the familiar saying inside out. Conceived as a kind of spatialized magazine issue and as part of ETC.'s ongoing research into artistic labor and the geopolitical conditions of artistic production, the project asks what happens when home is no longer a fixed point, when it has changed beyond recognition, or when it exists simultaneously in several places at once. We turn to our own region of the former Yugoslav countries to explore the concept of remittance, understood here not only in its financial sense but also as the knowledge, networks, cultural capital, and emotional labor that artists carry across borders in both directions: what they send back, what they absorb, and what they lose along the way.

We are returning to the artists we've worked with over the years, tracing their educational and professional migration paths. The result is a map spanning approximately 60 European cities. One map marks where artists moved to study, while the other shows where they relocated for work or residence. Of the artists who moved abroad for their education, more than half never returned, settling permanently in their host city or elsewhere. The map makes visible the gravitational pull that certain centres exert and the persistent flows that connect them to the places the artists come from.

Inside the installation, we take a closer look at what these relocations reveal and what the map might mean for artists as migrants. Through the work of Željka Aleksić, Damir Avdagić, Gašper Kunšič, Mila Panić, Maja Simišić, and Saša Tatić—six artists who have been featured in previous issues of ETC. and whose practices engage extensively with migration—we outline some of the realities of living abroad as an artist in search of better conditions to study, work, and live. We interviewed them about their personal experiences with relocation. The questions addressed their reasons for moving, remittance, belonging, and the power dynamics between peripheral art scenes and dominant centers. Their responses are presented alongside the works as fragments of lived experience that exist somewhere between testimony and artistic statement. By addressing different aspects of the artists' migrant experience, we seek to show how relocation is often an ongoing process of cultural negotiation through language, bureaucracy, distance, and the invisible labour of maintaining ties to what was left behind.
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Curatorial research: ETC.
Structure design: Žan Kobal
Graphic design: Zoran Pungerčar
Remittance is a traveling exhibition curated by Trisha Lagaso Goldberg. It is produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), in partnership with The Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.
Structure design: Žan Kobal
Graphic design: Zoran Pungerčar
Remittance is a traveling exhibition curated by Trisha Lagaso Goldberg. It is produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), in partnership with The Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.
ETC. is an annual magazine dedicated to showcasing current artistic production from the Balkans to the Baltics.
Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, each issue is dedicated to a relevant topic in art and life. Founded to promote emerging artists, its goal is to initiate a dialogue, inspire collaborations, and challenge set views.