Approved: 10.04.2019

Melissa Rodrigues

Artist

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Approved: 10.04.2019

Rodrigues' work uses a variety of materials to explore issues of displacement, belonging, and cultural identity. Exploring aspects concerning the movement of people across the world.

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  • Location: Swansea, Wales

Artist Statement

Rodrigues' work uses a variety of materials to explore issues of displacement, belonging, and cultural identity. Exploring aspects concerning the movement of people across the world.

Immigration for Rodrigues means more than laws, rules, and bureaucracy; it is centrally about awareness and maintenance of equality, integrity, and diversity within.

Rodrigues' work has developed with the notion of cultural identity and aims to explore and research about the African descendants whom similar to herself are raised or born outside Africa and consequently have a cultural mix but don't really acknowledge their ancestor history due to the lack of research into ancient African culture.

Rodrigues seeks to understand the effects of this 'missing history' on people's lives. Inviting you, to get inside the skin and experience the constriction, the tightening of skin of not belonging.

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