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Anita Groener’s Citizen grapples with the recent phenomenon of refugees streaming across Europe on foot. A shockingly atavistic sight broadcast over the media, the images of people fleeing conflict and depredations, especially in Syria, with children and families in tow, carrying or dragging whatever is left of their possessions, have been burned into our retinas and psyches. Citizen, a new iteration of a body of Groener’s recent work speaking to the topic, perches scores of tiny cut-out silhouettes of displaced people on branchy twigs growing out of the wall in a circle. Their journeys …