Home Is Where Heart Is
(Online from July 1 until September 30, 2020)
Works by Stephanie Comilang, Sarah Iris Mang, Rosalia Namsai Engchuan
Rosalia Namsai Engchuan, Complicated Happiness, video, still, 2020
Curated by Gloria Aino Grzywatz
The second iteration of Pars Pro Toto considers home in the age of globalized migration. The stories told by the artists Stephanie Comilang, Rosalia Namsai Engchuan and Sarah Iris Mang disclose different motivations for leaving their countries and handling living abroad. Some are migrant laborers, leaving behind their families for seven to ten months. Some must find a new home far away. Some are challenging the stereotypes of their migrant background. They all speak about the repercussions on their own identity and on the feeling of home. Hoping for better living conditions abroad, humans are often times stranded in intermediate worlds, unable to move forward or backward. In their thoughts and feelings, home exists as a place of longing and security. Home becomes the utopia of a better life carried in your heart. Home Is Where Heart Is shows that feeling home need not be coupled to one place and how living abroad can affect individual lives.