Calais camp exhibition is coming to London
Daniel Nelson
The Migration Museum is preparing a London exhibition featuring stories from the Calais migrants’ camp.
It will include photos by camp residents and professional photographers, film, and recycled material used by camp inhabitants to house themselves. It will also feature mixed media canvases by Cedoux Kadima, a refugee artists in the UK; and a work made up of 150 life jackets embedded with the stories of migrants who made the sea journey to Europe and some who died on the way.
“We wish to ensure that camp residents have their voices heard” and to be seen as “individual human beings with needs and hopes and not as a swarm of migrants,” says the Museum – which is itself looking for a permanent home.
In July, Prime Minister David Cameron referred to migrants trying to reach Britain from Calais as a swarm.
The exhibition, Call Me By My Name, is scheduled for June in Shoreditch, east London.
It was trailed by the Migrant Museum director Barbara Roche, a former Labour minister, when she opened an exhibition, 100 Images of Migration, at the European Commission’s London office on 1 M
arch.
She said her organisation aims to establish a dedicated museum to tell the long, fascinating story of migration in Britain – “it’s basically about the men and women who changed these islands”.
* 100 Images of Migration is at the 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU, 10am–6pm Monday to Friday until 11 March
+ http://migrationmuseum.org/event/100-images-at-europe-house/ 100 Images exhibition
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