Imaginary Homelands

‘Imaginary Homelands’ collates artwork from a series of residencies. Artists considered their projects from the position of being in and from the two locations simultaneously, allowing both to inform their experiences, inflect their understanding of ‘the local’ and provide differing social and cultural contexts and available materials for the development of their work. A product of this experiment, the exhibition is an imaginary place conceptually situated somewhere between the two locations, made tangible through a series of artworks created specifically for, and as, an imaginary homeland at Art Gallery of York University. As hybrid creations that draw upon and from many different sources, materials, stories and experiences, the resulting works in Imaginary Homelands are more than just translations. The exhibition literally and figuratively crosses borders and boundaries both actual and perceived which its works annul by proposing new insights from the perspective of being in a place that is neither here nor there. 171 colour illustrations