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'Asylum in Art' Exhibition

The ‘Asylum in Art’ photo-exhibition and ‘composite’ audio (narrating women’s experiences as a whole), giving a voice women seeking asylum in the city of Leeds.

This exhibition is a show and tell project – to hear what women seeking asylum in the city of Leeds have to say about their detention and community experiences and bring them to life through photo-voice.

The 11 exhibits photo-voice three key narratives common across asylum experience:

How life inside an Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) serves to dehumanise people in search of sanctuary
How detainees resist unfair control and creatively maintain a gendered and cultural identity
How community-welcome benefits both those who reside in and those who join a neighbourhood

To protect the women who shared their stories, all the actors are students or colleagues from Leeds Beckett University.

‘Critical friends’ of the project

Maria De Angelis

Project Director & author of ‘Female Asylum Seekers: A Critical Attitude on UK Immigration Removal Centres’ where you can read women’s stories of dehumanisation, creativity inside detention, & community engagement in full.
Jeremy Abrahams

Project Photographer and Artistic Consultant whose full collection of works can be viewed at Jeremy Abrahams Documentary and Portrait Photography.
Other 'critical friends'

Heartfelt thanks to our critical friends at City of Sanctuary; Refugee Education Training Advice Service (RETAS); Toast-Love-Coffee café; Asmarina Voices; Hinsley Hall; Universities Chaplaincy in Leeds; & The Leeds Church Institute. Thank you also to our funders (CeASR) & Cat Brooke (CeASR administrator); as well as the Performing Arts actors & Leeds Beckett colleagues who modelled for us: Kafayat Adegoke (whose voice you also hear in the audio), Melissa Mupariwa, Annabella Renaldi & Heather McDermott; Erika Laredo & Lorraine Agu.

Special thanks to the 15 participants whose collective experience forms the exhibition – truly remarkable women whose generous sharing of stories has made this exhibition possible.

Maria De Angelis

m.de-angelis@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

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