Transnational migration is perhaps the most highly contested issue across Europe. Over the last twenty-years Ireland has experienced significant inward migration. For new arrivals spatial and temporal displacement is potentially traumatic, resulting in shifting identities where home can no longer be understood as a fixed knowable entity. Ieva is preoccupied with revealing personal and collective narratives where memory, history and language encourage a deeper engagement with interculturalism.
Migracijos explores aspects of migratory culture and questions how displacement affects and transforms the lives of migrants. What is lost and what is gained in the process of transition between leaving home and settling in the host country? These questions are addressed through a dialogue with Lithuanian women representing two generations who came to live in Ireland during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ years. The resulting ‘conversations’ reveal intimate intercultural complexities concerning notions of home, language and history. Viewers are invited to reconsider commonly held negative attitudes towards migration and interculturalism and engage with the personal narratives evoking the in-between place where neither home nor language are no longer defined as fixed entities.
Born in 1988, in Lithuania, Ieva Baltaduonyte is an emerging multidisciplinary artist. Graduate of the Photography BA programme (Dublin Institute of Technology), she lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.
Migracijos
September 5 – October 14, 2012
Galerija „101“,
Laisvės al. /alley 53
Kaunas
Lithuania
