Juan delGado

Juan delGado, a media and moving image artist with extensive experience in collaborative projects. His preoccupation to unfold stories from groups and individuals who face mobility limitation for several reasons, drove him to produce projects as diverse as Sailing Out of Grain, an intimate portrait of the solo sailor Hilary Lister whose neurological condition left her paralyzed from neck down; with remarkable determination Hilary sailed around the UK in 2009 in her own boat. In 2013 the refugee crisis in Europe had not made it to the news, and yet delGado felt compelled to learn about the experiences of displacement of Syrians fleeing their hometowns, crossing borders and resettling across Europe and beyond. He produced Talking Syria, an online platform in which those who are displaced and resettled in different countries shared their stories from an individual experience. This project was featured by Unesco in their United for Heritage campaign in 2015 and SVT Kultur in 2016. A selection of the stories and photographs will be published in the Swedish magazine Artikel 14.