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Voluntarily or not, women are moved in great numbers from Manila to Nigeria, from Burma to Thailand, and from post-socialist countries to Western Europe: female geobodies in the flow of global capitalism. The recently released 53-minute video essay Remote Sensing by the Swiss artist and video director Ursula Biemann traces the routes and reasons of women who migrate into the global sex industry. Taking a geographical approach to trafficking, the video develops a particular visual language generated by new media and satellite technologies, which traces the migration of women in the age of digital images. All stills are taken from the video that was shot in the Philippines, Thailand, California, and the German–Czech border.

"THE MAGHREB CONNECTION is a collaborative art and visual research project on the North African migratory space." (Biemann, Ursula: Preface, S. 2) "Finally I should mention that we feel very privileged to present the project at the Townhouse Gallery Cairo and CAC Centre d'art Contemporain Geneva [...]. CAC Geneva has also contributed to the production of the publication. The MAGHREB CONNECTION book goes beyond a documentation of the exhibition, it is the result of thorough research and reflection undertaken over an extended time period." ( Biemann, Ursula: Preface, S. 3)