Remembering Home is a sculpture and music project that is part of the group exhibition Refugees: Forced to Flee at the Imperial War Museum London. Dates 24 September 2020 to 24 May 2021

Refugees: Forced to Flee is part of Refugees, a season of exhibitions, artistic commissions and immersive events taking place across Imperial War Museum London and Imperial War Museum North in 2020. Unlocking the personal stories of people who have been forced to flee their homes and those who work to support them, Refugees will give visitors the space to consider their own responses to similar experiences and dilemmas. The season include Refugees: Forced to Flee at IWM London, created in partnership with AHRC and ESRC, History of Bombs by Ai Weiwei at IWM London and Aid Workers: Ethics Under Fire at IWM North.

Refugees: Forced to Flee includes documents from the museum’s archive as well as three new commissions by contemporary artists Shorsh Saleh, Grace Schwindt and Indrė Šerpytytė.

Grace Schwindt’s project Remembering Home consists of five ceramic sculptures and music pieces that serve as soundtracks for the sculptures. The works examine themes of home and the experience of those who lost their homes due to war including members of her own family. Each sculpture is based on a conversation with an individual refugee, in which they recall their homes before conflict. Revealing the way memories and emotions can change or distort over time, Schwindt explores the complex feelings which surround the idea of ‘home’ for displaced people and what was shared in the particular moment of the conversation.

iwm.org.uk/events/refugees-forced-to-flee

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27797