Johnny Foreigner

Lata engaged with diverse communities to open dialogues with individuals that had similarly experienced migration to Britain. Based upon her own experience, Lata filled clear acrylic suitcases with recreated objects and belongings that each had brought with them when they travelled. Each item symbolically packed into a suitcase, representing the motion of the journey and the indefinite significance that these continue to have on each individual.

Each case representing the identity that had been left behind and the renegotiation of making sense of that, within a new culture and context – “A new place, on new soil, a new culture and a new beginning”.

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