This installation welcomes its visitors by mimicking a street environment: that which is a shared space where strangers and community can communicate with each other through visuals or text. Two phone booths, the once commonly used but now few and far in between, serve as the other form of communication, a more private one. Where hearing a voice can show emotion and connect you further.
When community is not nurtured, shared spaces and tools run out of service, and people with less resources are left out; communication and understanding is broken. In this day and age, movement and communication has never been so easy and simultaneously so restricted and warped.
Artist Statement
Todo Mundo reflects on immigration in a world where movement is shaped by borders and regulation, and how this influences identity and belonging. Belonging is not fixed, but a transient state of culture and community.
Bringing together friends, reconnected family, and acquaintances with lived or inherited experiences of migration, experiences are shared beyond fixed ideas of origin––inspired by Mia’s own questions and experiences with her family’s storied history of migration.
Through conversation and reflection, Todo Mundo considers how people relate to the land they inhabit and to one another, emphasizing how connection and identity are shaped through movement.
Mia invites you to sit with these stories and listen. Pick up the phone.
