Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
Collective Exhibition "Traveling Tales"
Curator by Camila Marambio
Masterton, New Zealand
2005
An itinerary is a way of materialising movement. For these reasons and because the card connects two points in space and establishes routes, lines of continuity, and connectivity, "Traveling Tales" is
an exhibition that circulates ideas and creates an instance of long-distance communication.
Traveling Tales” Travel Stories was born from a desire sparked by distance—a yearning for contact and community. In a world where the growing trend is continuous relocation and extensive travel, counteracting this affliction of nostalgia and mapping our endless movements across the globe, Travel Stories is an exhibition of postcards sent by artists from places as diverse as the Amazon, New York, Chile, Germany, and beyond.
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Artists responded to an invitation to begin a dialogue, share an experience, and create a community.
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The postcard, functioning both as a brief letter and a keepsake, offers the possibility of being both an image and text—an illustration of a part of a journey, a way to remember a passage, the memory of a place and a person, an itinerary, a means to materialize movement.
For these reasons, and because the postcard connects two points in space and establishes routes, lines of continuity, and connectivity, Travel Stories is an exhibition that puts ideas into circulation and creates an instance of long-distance communication.




