2020 Statelessness & Citizenship Review 2(2) but the stateless people themselves are not here, because they do not have a passport’. 80 Figure 1: An empty chair for the stateless people, the absent people. 81 As the conference proceeded, I observed various participant reactions to artworks and kept an account of my own feelings towards any particular piece. In the following Part, I move to present and analyse various artworks and experiments that tried to present different human aspects of statelessness. Primarily, they sought to convey vulnerability, hope and agency. 80 81 Observation of an anonymous participant (Mizanur Rahman, World Conference on Statelessness and Inclusion, 26 June 2019). Mizanur Rahman, An Empty Chair for the Stateless People, the Absent People (Photo, World Conference on Statelessness and Inclusion 26–28 June 2019). 286

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