The exhibitions investigate different definitions of ‘home’ and cultural identity in the context of global consumerism, and what we accept or reject in marking these boundaries.
The borderlines between a sense of belonging and unbelonging are often drawn along the dichotomies of ‘domestic or foreign’, ‘safe or dangerous’, ‘desirable or abject’.
Elsewhere(s) explores what it takes to feel ‘at home’ in a place such as Exeter, including the personal experience of being an outsider within a dominant cultural context, through exhibitions and site-specific interventions in the city’s busy shopping centre.
