MOMENTUM Presents - TAKING FLIGHT: Birds & Bicycles

Birds & Bicycles is conceived as a ‘factory of metaphors’, taking as its premise the ideas of freedom and the notion of borders, forever shifting and perpetually being crossed, where bicycles symbolize physical freedom, and birds, metaphysical freedom. In Berlin, MOMENTUM extrapolates from the metaphor of birds and bicycles to build our program around the analogy of flight. Referring to the duality of the term flight as both an airborne means of travel and an escape from crisis, the metaphor of flight is integral to the historical and contemporary context of Berlin. In a city itself long divided, located in the geographical center of a divided Europe, the history of air travel in Berlin is a history of crisis, indivisible from the basic humanitarian need for freedom. MORE INFO: https://www.momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/birds-bicycles/