‘Migrating Dreams and Nightmares’ is a new exhibition of images and text by John Berger and Jean Mohr, on display at Commonground in Coventry. The exhibition is based on their book A Seventh Man, first published in 1973 and looks at migration in Europe. Nirmal Puwar (Academic at Goldsmiths, University of London) first co-curated this exhibition in 2016 at Goldsmiths University of London. This new exhibition is on display from end of January 2023, until early 2024.
Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.
He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.
Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.