In Athens, a tempestuous muddy sea and a cluster of rolling clouds gather on the walls of a former tavern as a panoramic mural. For Drawing a Line through Landscape he sets forth to traverse the nearly 3,000 kilometers between Athens and Kassel: crossing the mountainous landscape of Greece, passing the deserted villages, former soviet towns, and orthodox monasteries in Bulgaria, lingering briefly in the verdant wilderness of Romania’s Cozia National Park, at gatherings on public squares, or in the art spaces of Sofia, Budapest, and Bratislava, where he is joined by fellow artists and choreographers.

His tent is a temporary studio and domicile—reminiscent of travelling theatres, where improvisational encounters unfold in communal relation. The artist serenades the cities and towns that he enters much as a lover does, transitioning through states of exuberance, intoxication, rejection, and fatigue. This continued journey remains enmeshed in the trails of centuries-old nomadism as well as the migratory passages that are still being carved out—ultimately the zigzagging route is not simply a South-North or East-West binary movement but rather the reflection of a complex microcosm of dispersed selfhood, abandonment, economic austerity, and territorial violence in today’s Europe.

—Natasha Ginwala