A Must-See Michael Armitage Show Inaugurates David Zwirner’s Latest New York Gallery

In 2015, an Eritrean teenager named Saron told Vice News of her harrowing journey from her war-torn home country to Europe via the Libyan capital of Tripoli, a 4,000-mile odyssey that included imprisonment, endangerment, and bearing witness to the torture of fellow female migrants. The Vice story continued to linger with the painter Michael Armitage, so much so that he returned to this agonizing tale nine years later in a work called Path (2024), which is making its debut this month in a hauntin