An installation exploring migration, displacement and the transformation of identity through experiences of home, belonging, assimilation and cultural adaptation.
Identity changes through movement, encounter, dislocation and the experience of entering another culture.
Identity explores migration as more than geographical movement. The project considers how leaving one place and entering another can reshape a person's relationship with home, culture, belonging and the self.
The installation investigates the tension between maintaining an inherited identity and adapting to a new social and cultural environment. Rather than presenting identity as fixed, the work visualises it as layered, unstable and continuously reconstructed.
Physical transparency became a central material metaphor. Separate visual layers combine when viewed or projected together, mirroring the way individual experiences accumulate into a hybrid identity.
The research considered identity in relation to place: the place we leave, the place we enter and the psychological position that develops between them.
Home functions here not simply as an address, but as a combination of language, memory, familiarity, culture and belonging.
Migration introduces another layer: negotiation. The individual must continually decide which elements are retained, which are adapted and which are transformed.
The final installation transforms the research into spatial depth.
Multiple semi-transparent surfaces hang one behind another. Each acts as a component of identity, while projection causes the image to pass through and accumulate across the layers.
The further the image travels through the installation, the larger and less singular it becomes.
The final installation brings physical material, projected light and layered imagery together to visualise identity as something accumulated rather than singular.
We do not simply leave one identity and enter another. We accumulate layers.