Transit Nations is a video-based work that explores global infrastructures of forced displacement and flight through virtual spaces. By examining protracted refugee situations from a mediated distance—and drawing from multiple perspectives as they appear within everyday digital technologies—the project aims to make visible a humanitarian crisis that remains largely unseen within the Western hemisphere.

According to the UNHCR, approximately 70.8 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide in 2019. This ongoing crisis is increasingly embodied by the rise of protracted refugee encampments. Originally conceived as temporary shelters, these spaces are evolving into permanent settlements—sometimes larger than major European cities. They function not only as places of refuge, but also as zones of confinement, where rights are suspended, mobility is restricted, and self-determination is curtailed. Paradoxically, many of these sites are more accessible in virtual space than in physical reality.

To address these conditions, the work gathers online evidence of conflict and displacement within a digital environment. It consists of two media components. The core is a video loop, embedded within a computer user interface, which documents a personal research journey through online spaces. It raises questions about digital representation, territoriality, migration, and structural inequality. This is accompanied by four photographic prints—captured from within the same virtual environment—that serve as still frames from the video. Each image features a QR code overlaid on the landscape, functioning as an access point that connects the virtual and physical, offering a tangible threshold to an otherwise intangible terrain.