12 December 2018 – 4 January 2019
The gallery is open from 10am-6pm, Monday to Friday and is located at 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU.
What would you take if you had to leave home?
What can be spirited across borders, and what has to be left behind?
What can you carry in your imagination, your language, your culture, your memories?
And, after the scattering of things into the world, and the confusions of identity, how much is left of your life – of you – should you manage the crossing?
Curated by the writer Frances Stonor Saunders in collaboration with the Estonian photographer Kaupo Kikkas, this exhibition offers a view into the personal stories of individuals who are bearers for the memory of migration, as seen through the cherished objects they have chosen for the journey.
We are all, in some measure, from somewhere else. This is the story of leaving but also of arriving, of borders crossed and lives continued.
Featuring Carmen Callil, Thomas Heatherwick, Eva Rothschild, Marina Warner, Philippe Sands, Maurice Okechukwu Nwokeji, Hanan al-Shaykh, Nora Krug, Margaret Hodge, Mohammad and Naseera Naeem, Claudia Roden.
Image: Marina Warner. What would you take. 2018 © Kaupo Kikkas