welcome

“We have the means via the smallest gesture to include or exclude and to signal whether someone is an outsider or not. We defend invisible territories or we give ground, and all without a word being uttered.”

Lynette Wallworth

Identity: yours, mine, ours is an exhibition at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne. It is about identity – who we are, who others think we are, and what it means to belong and not belong in Australia.  The exhibition begins with Welcome – an immersive video installation created by Lynette Wallworth.

Welcome invites visitors to contemplate what it means to belong, and conversely, what it means to be excluded, via a visceral work that plays powerfully on instinctive human responses. The life-size scale and impact of this work allows viewers to experience the subtle (and not so subtle) ways we are accepted and rejected by others.

Welcome was produced by the Immigration Museum Melbourne 2011