Exile is a Hard Job
Nil Yalter
As part of Dream City 2023, L’Art Rue executed Exile is a Hard Job project on seven walls across the medina. Street artist Trangis put up the posters and did the calligraphy in the languages of English, French, Arabic, and Tamazigh, to reflect the context of Tunisia as a country of refuge and transit.
Display of Nil Yalter for Dream City 2023 © Pol GuillardExile is a Hard Job is an ongoing project Nil Yalter began in 1975, featuring a series of ephemeral fly posters of immigrants painted over with the slogan “Exile is a Hard Job”.
Exile is a Hard Job contemplates the often challenging experience of being an immigrant ignored and ostracized in a foreign country. The title of the work is drawn from a poem by Nâzım Hikmet, a prominent Turkish poet who spent many years in exile in Russia.
Exile is a Hard Job has been staged in Valencia, Metz, Mumbai, Vienna, Istanbul, Brussels, Cologne, and New York.
Display of Nil Yalter for Dream City 2023 © Malek Abderahmen 
Display of Nil Yalter for Dream City 2023 ©Minyar Abdellaoui 
Display of Nil Yalter for Dream City 2023 © Malek AbderahmenShare
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