TOPIC

What is the relationship between the heard and unheard, seen and unseen, how do we navigate this as humans?
Why do we need to make sense of everything?
What can actually be seen in an image, is it merely emotion? 

TOPIC

IDENTITIES

GENDER

SEXUAL IDENTITY

ETHNIC / NATIONALITY

HISTORICAL

PHENOTYPIC

CULTURAL

PROFESSIONAL

RELIGIOUS / SPIRITUAL

SOCIO-ECONOMIC

POLITICAL

(DIS-)ABILITY

FACT OR FICTION?

GRADUATION TOPIC

Growing up in Luxembourg and having parents from the UK and British guyana, I have never felt connected to the luxembourgish culture. Growing up outside of my mothers country (BRITISH) and having a father (GUYANESE) that was away, meant that my sibling and I did not experience any of their country and felt a disconnect to those sides of the family.

Throughout term 4.1 I spent a lot of time asking for family images, researching my family history and listening to stories from my parents, in order to bridge this disconnect. I also considered doing a DNA test to find out more about myself. However, I reached a point where I was unsure if I was even learning anything about myself as I was reliant on stories told by others, dealing with broken family bonds and archives that have been set up by colonialists. I found myself in a space between fact and fiction.

PREVIOUS TERM

This relationship between fact or fiction, memory or happening, is what interests me now. I do not want to disregard the history of my family, however I want to explore the memories we attach to family images and happenings. I would like to collect stories from different family members in relation to the same image for example, and see where details differ and fact become fiction.