“The relic of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwreck, in which around 1000 migrants perished at sea in 2015, was resurrected as an art installation displayed at the 58th Venice Art Biennale titled Barca Nostra (Our Boat), by artist Christoph Büchel in 2019…. My accompanying photographic work titled “Uncanny Venezia Vistas” focuses on the aesthetics of the uncanny to examine the controversies around “our boat”, its material history, the political crisis of migration, travel, and the historical/cultural space of Venice as capturing and disrupting the tourist gaze… The Barca Nostra, “Our Boat” is not a relic of the past but is part of our present…My work alludes to the migrant ship and tourist experience. In my work, I created postcard-like images and emblazoned them on the image of the hull of Barca Nostra. It presents an unsettling, uncanny reminder of the borders that exist between mass tourism and migration. These borders separate travel that is acceptable and encouraged for some, yet deterred, dangerous, and deadly for Others”.

Allmark, P. (2025). Barca Nostra: Photography, Tourists, Travel and Refugees. Critical Arts, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2025.2455728