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Thousand Years Refugees, 2015
From the series United Colors of Gypsy.
175 cm x 220 cm
Courtesy of the Gallery Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix.
As part of the community of Romani people, Le Bas’s maps transcend the scientific and pedagogical materials which delineate towns, cities and countries, uniting them in the reality of transnational Roma life. The Travellers and Gypsy communities (N.B. the latter term is used only in a positive way by Roma in the British Isles) have learned to overcome borders, often due to forced migration as ‘outsiders everywhere’.