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Artnet – A Suite of Exhibitions Respond to the U.K.’s Anti-Immigration Riots (12/11/2024)

“It was a surreal experience,” Hui said of installing the work, which she describes as “a love letter” to Chinese takeaways. “I would never have thought to see my story in a museum. I just wanted to document the almost thankless job of working in an immigrant-owned hospitality business.” These beloved local restaurants in rural white areas are “often people’s introduction to a different cuisine, the building blocks for their palates to explore new things,” Hui added. Yet, “we don’t often get to see them as having any cultural importance.”

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METAL – All Our Stories: Narrating Displacement (05/10/2024)

All Our Stories features the centrality of migration in Britain through immersive installations, art, film, sound-booths, photography, and personal stories created by the award-winning curatorial team at the Migration Museum. Exploring the ways in which migration has shaped both the individual, as well as the collective, the exhibition presents the rich tapestry of migration, from questions of belonging, cultural assumptions about identity and displacement, as well as the impact of contemporary responses.

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AFP – London exhibition honours ‘human stories’ of migrants (12/09/2024)

Migration is “often seen as something that’s very divisive” but in reality “is just a part of our daily lives”, said Aditi Anand, curator of “All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain”. “It’s shaped Britain over the centuries and we want to get a sense of that long history and show that migration has always been happening,” she told AFP.

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