THU27NOV Uncertain Identities: Marianne Halter, Felipe Mujica, Cat Tuong Nguyen, Adán Vallecillo, Herbert Weber @ Carroll / Fletcher Project Space, 17A Riding House Street, London, W1W 7DS PV 18:30-20:30 Carroll / Fletcher is pleased to present Uncertain Identities, a curatorial exchange with Christinger de Mayo Gallery in Zürich, Switzerland. Observing a global shift in migration behaviours, American academic Nina Glick-Schiller developed the term transmigrant in the early 90s to define an emerging social group. According to Glick-Schiller, Transmigrants can be defined as international migrants who, facing precarious claims in a country of settlement, develop and maintain a network of connections linked to people of common ancestry across international borders while simultaneously settling in a new country. In the first issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (1994), Glick-Schiller pointed out that issues of identity and culture had emerged as central to the current historical moment and that the journal wanted to explore the relationship between racial, ethnic and power hierarchies within national and global arenas, [and] the multiple processes by which cultural representation, domination and resistance are embedded in social relationships. Twenty years later, globalisation, combined with the shift towards post-imperial metropolitan centres continue to change the post-Cold War world. In exploring these profound shifts, the artistic practices showcased in this exhibition meditate on the uncertainty of identity, reflecting our uneasy relationship to place. carrollfletcher/exhibitions/36/works/artworks_two5833/
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