Letters to Home
Exhibition
Group exhibition at Brooklyn Art Library, New York, April 2012
Overview
About the exhibition
It’s been a while, and the house you grew up in is starting to wonder about you. If your childhood home could hear you, what would you say? Whether it was an apartment in the big city, a farmhouse in the country, or a cabin in the woods, there’s a place from your past that will always stay with you. ‘Letters to Home’ is a community art project and an exhibition created by hundreds of strangers from around the world. Each participant contributed a single letter addressed to a childhood home, reanimating these structures from the past and filling them in on their present lives. The exhibition aimed to transform the Brooklyn Art Library in New York by covering the walls with handwritten memories, with each page addressed to a different home.
Artist's statement
Rationale
After the exhibition’s opening at the Brooklyn Art Library, every letter contributed to the project was compiled in a boxed Anthology of Letters to Home and was exhibited across the globe as part of the 2012 Sketchbook Project World Tour. My interpretation of the project resulted in a poignant letter addressed to my childhood home of twenty-three years in Bangkok, Thailand.
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