An outcome of the Royal College of Art x Serendipity Arts Senior Artist Residency 2024
Start from a single point, a compass point if you will. An imaginary direction tugged
along magnetic latitudes, longitudes, ley lines, fault lines, and boundary lines. Imagine
moving outwards to create a web of connections, possibilities, and imaginary
landscapes. Then write in the everyday through tiny details of lists and aspirations and
root it to denote a sense of home. Any home.
This exhibition is an expansion of the body of work developed during the residency at
the Royal College of Art earlier in the year. Ruminating on the idea of home, belonging
and identity and charting a path that looks outwards at the larger implications of ‘away’.
Who becomes a ‘migrant’, a ‘settler’, or remains a ‘traveller’? What are the things that
help ground us, whatever and wherever we are? Bringing in the familiar and the
mundane, I explore the potential of various acts of claiming spaces. In this body of work,
I use my grandmother’s meticulous grocery lists as the spine that holds together the
fragments of images, spaces, places and things that I have collected. This material is
further filtered through interventions and interpolations in the darkroom, in pencil,
paper, paint, and moving image to present an evolving atlas of ‘belonging’.
Collaborators:
Royal College of Art, London
