Home Performance 1 , 2014
73 x 105 cm (h x w)
Giclée print

© Guler Ates

In this performance, set in Lapa, Rio – a neighbourhood famed for its architectural monuments and Bohemian culture – a veiled figure crosses the foreground pulling a house behind her. Ates’ practice explores concepts of displacement, particularly the notion that we carry our ‘mental home … wherever we go’. This work was first exhibited at Ben Uri Gallery as part of the exhibition, 'Unexpected: continuing narratives of identity and migration' in 2016.

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