På Feil Sted: Professional Foreigner

Khalid Albaih

Edition of 250
Staple bound
24 pages
140 x 185 mm

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In Professional Foreigner, artist Khalid Albaih turns the Venice airport into a mirror. From the transit lounge, he observes the multiplicity of travelers—and the weight assigned to certain bodies when they pass through European borders. The airport becomes a staging ground for the migrant experience: being rendered a stranger under the racist gaze, even as one carries the wound of a homeland in collapse. For Albaih, this displacement is doubly painful. Sudan falls apart at home; he finds himself untethered from family scattered across refugee routes. Professional Foreigner is a short comic strip that holds both realities together—the immediate sting of stereotyping and the long-distance grief of separation. It is an act of witness: making visible the longing that official categories try to erase.

På Feil Sted (est. 2026) is part of Masahat’s ongoing interrogation of the limits and possibilities of art in public space. Through a series of zines, we initiate a conversation with young people about the state of the world and the function of art in processes of social and political change.

This series of zines is co-published by Hverdag and Masahat.