Transit Nations is a video work that attempts to trace and visualize the global infrastructure of flight and forced displacement within virtual spaces. By examining protracted situations of displacement from a distance, and by drawing on different perspectives, their visibility and accessibility within the communication technologies of everyday use, the project seeks to provide an inside view of this humanitarian crisis that is often invisible to us in the Western hemisphere.

According to the UNHCR, around 70.8 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide in 2019. This growing humanitarian crisis affecting millions of people is particularly visible in the growing emergence of protracted refugee encampments. Initially conceived as temporary shelters, these camps are turning into permanent settlements or proto-cities, even outnumbering some of the largest cities in Europe. These places resemble not only a place of refuge, but in many cases a place of imprisonment, deprivation of rights, restriction of self-determination and violation of the right to freedom of movement. It is even more contradictory that they are unexpectedly accessible to observers in the virtual space.

In attend to refer to these phenomena, related evidences of conflict and crisis are gathered within the online environment. In its implementation, the project employs two different types of media.The main part is a video loop which is staged within the user interface of the computer, displaying and retracing a personal research and an approach to the topic. Adressing questions on digital representation, migration, territorial issues and systematic social inequality. Complemented by four photographic prints captured within the online environment, displaying four key frames from the video. They contain a QR-Code on top of the displayed environment and serve the role of the entrance threshold to provide certain tangibility to the virtual accessibility.