The photography exhibition "Ident•i•gration" investigates how identity is formed in our globalized world.
“Where do you come from?” Some of us answer this everyday question by the way – without any ulterior motives, while others make it perplexed. There are many possible answers: ”from the bakery”, “from the hairdresser – can´t you see that?”, “from the supermarket”, “from Harz” and „”from Hamburg”. Sometimes the answer leaves her counterpart unsatisfied: “No, I do not mean THAT, I mean, where do you originally come from?”
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Foto-Ausstellung "Ident•i•gration"
“Where do you come from?” opens up the vast field of our definition of identity and how we classify affiliations. When the question is directed to one of the 19.5 million people with a migrant background living in Germany, it is usually meant as an attempt, to place the unknown in familiar categories and thus to come closer to the respondent. But instead of getting to know them, the question often blurs individualities and stigmatizes the interlocutor as “the other”.
The exhibition takes place as part of the XB-Lab project.
Supported by: Modellprogramm „Utopolis – Soziokultur im Quartier“ im Rahmen der ressortübergreifenden Strategie Soziale Stadt „Nachbarschaften stärken, Miteinander im Quartier“ des Bundesministeriums des Innern, für Bau und Heimat und der Beauftragten für Kultur und Medien.
