ABSTRACT
In this chapter we provide a reflection on a feminist and participatory art project with women survivors of abuse. The project, called “Displaced”, focused on working with women in visually representing their liminal identities and possessions. Reflecting on some of the most prominent difficulties of establishing boundaries in the fieldwork, we provide an account of how ethical challenges around friendship, vulnerability, and power emerged in our project. In acknowledging the impossibilities of becoming friends, of overcoming participants’ vulnerability and our own position of power, we raise questions about the unintentional exploitative nature of art-based methods that can generate more “intimate” and “better” data.
