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Roma Routes - Art, Identity, and Expression from Hungary
Join us on 8 April to mark International Roma Day for Roma Routes, an evening of photography, film, and contemporary art exploring the journeys that shape Roma identity. Bringing together documentary work from a collaborative project in Tiszavasvári, Hungary, and artistic reflections by London-based Roma artist Robert Czibi, the exhibition traces connections between place, memory, and belonging. Through images, stories, and personal perspectives, Roma Routes invites audiences to reflect on how identity is shaped between the places we come from and the places we continue to become.
This exhibition brings together two intertwined narratives: the story of a segregated Roma community in Tiszavasvári, and that of an artist born in another Roma neighbourhood in the same region who has carried its memory across borders.
The first story is that of collaboration: stepping across internal borders between the countryside and the Hungarian capital, Budapest, to involve participants from the Roma neighbourhood of a small town in the North-East of Hungary in a collaborative writing project with local non-Roma residents through the publication of the periodical Duj Dzséne – Ketten – Two Together.
The second story is of the artist, Robert Czibi who crossed internal borders of identity and the physical borders of countries on many occasions before finding his expressive voice in the multiplicity of London’s lingua-culture. The simultaneity of identity as rootedness in Roma origins and identity as motion and interaction with our surroundings is what unites the two narratives that unfold in the images exhibited together.
We warmly invite audiences to join us for an evening of photography, film and contemporary art marking International Roma Day. Through documentary images, collaborative storytelling and personal artistic reflection, Roma Routes opens a space to engage with questions of identity, belonging, and the journeys that shape Roma lives across places and generations.
This exhibition brings together two intertwined narratives: the story of a segregated Roma community in Tiszavasvári, and that of an artist born in another Roma neighbourhood in the same region who has carried its memory across borders.
The first story is that of collaboration: stepping across internal borders between the countryside and the Hungarian capital, Budapest, to involve participants from the Roma neighbourhood of a small town in the North-East of Hungary in a collaborative writing project with local non-Roma residents through the publication of the periodical Duj Dzséne – Ketten – Two Together.
The second story is of the artist, Robert Czibi who crossed internal borders of identity and the physical borders of countries on many occasions before finding his expressive voice in the multiplicity of London’s lingua-culture. The simultaneity of identity as rootedness in Roma origins and identity as motion and interaction with our surroundings is what unites the two narratives that unfold in the images exhibited together.
We warmly invite audiences to join us for an evening of photography, film and contemporary art marking International Roma Day. Through documentary images, collaborative storytelling and personal artistic reflection, Roma Routes opens a space to engage with questions of identity, belonging, and the journeys that shape Roma lives across places and generations.
Wednesday 8 April
17-19 Cockspur Street London SW1Y 5BL
Programme18:30 - Film screening (25 minutes)
19:00 - Panel discussion - The Road Ahead – Documentary and Photography Projects from Hungary
19:30 - There I Was Born, Here I Become - Private view
21:00 - End of Event
This event is free, but registration is required.
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