138 Bank Alley (University Building)
Syracuse

"Freedom and Control" explores the passport as a real and imagined object, a repository of dreams and nightmares. The document's fundamental purpose has always been tied to freedom of movement — passports make it possible for some individuals to cross international borders and allow the State to convey and govern the permission to do so. While the the document may seem to provide a kind of freedom to its bearer, it often does the opposite. Passports from some countries carry almost no restrictions on travel, while passports from others severely constrain citizens' ability to leave their home country.

Working in sculpture, photography, book arts and installation, the artists in this exhibition consider, critique and deconstruct this charged document to highlight its myriad uses; as a tool of State control, an indispensable object that fixes or erases national identity, or a portal through which we might imagine other ways of being in and moving through the world.