Un|Fixed Homeland, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, 2016 Catalog: Un|Fixed Homeland | Page 6

Un | Fixed Homeland brings together an inter-generational roster of thirteen emerging and established artists of Guyanese heritage who , via photography and photography-based art , explore their intimate relationship to the experience of migration and homeland . These artists examine how a “ homeland ” can be both fixed and unfixed , a constantly shifting idea and memory , and a physical place and a psychic space . Their roots in Guyana and where they now call home reflect the reality of the country ’ s diaspora ; these are artists working in Guyana , as well as in five metropolitan cities — Boston , Los Angeles , New York , London , and Toronto . While the exhibition ’ s title reflects the emergence of the Caribbean diaspora in these global metropolises , Un | Fixed Homeland is steeped in a larger conversation — what is perhaps the defining global movement of our 21st century — migration .