A visual journey through themes of storytelling and biography, A Thousand of Him, Scattered: Relative Newcomers in Diaspora [1] examined the ways in which individuals relate to their diasporic status and its daily realities. Through the work of seven international artists, stories and links were told and travelled from Luanda to Tel Aviv, Togo to Helsinki. Each work differently reflected the history of diaspora as a concept, and the simultaneous utility and redundancy of it as a term describing a shared experience away from the homeland. The confrontation and resistance, dejection and upheaval, affirmation and attachments made visibly on show, urged us to (re)think and define ideas of belonging and citizenship in the present and for the future. Curated for Stills by Mother Tongue.

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