The main gallery at HOME is transformed into a semi-public artist studio and psychotherapy space where artist Linda Brogan and psychologist Adam Danquah will lead a journey of exploration with a group of eight mixed-heritage cultural practitioners based in Manchester.
Together this intergenerational group will excavate personal stories, lay truths bare, and forge pathways forward in solidarity.
Based on each participant’s unique story, Brogan will fill the gallery walls with sixteen large-scale drawings using a method of mind-mapping she first developed as a personal therapeutic tool in the early 2000s. This unfolding, unruly forest of lived experience will form a powerful basis for reflection and integration, also creating the setting for the culmination of the group’s journey in a self-devised embodied grief ritual.
MY MUM IS WHITE is a collective experiment bridging community building, psychotherapy, and visual art.
When not in use for private sessions, the public are invited to witness Brogan at work and use the space for their own reflections and conversations.
*The term ‘half-caste’ is used in full recognition of its origins in colonialism and the system of chattel slavery, and in recognition of its eventual use as a self-descriptor in Britain. Brogan and Danquah use the term ‘half-caste’ to signify their shared experience growing up.
