Event overview
An exhibition by Nela Milic in the Constance Howard Centre
Wedding Bellas is a photographic project about female desire for roots and stability. It explores a wish to belong. It acts as a comment on aging, migration and marriage, but can be a record of an individual’s urge to hide personal problems, as a human need for dressing up etc...
The project presents brides passionately attached to the objects of their marriage. That is evident from the photos - women in wedding dresses have a physical connection with their rooted fellow. Wedding dresses are surrounded by other wedding iconography, but the image is not a joke – it is a serious matter - an event of desperation and illusion shot as on a true wedding ceremony. The photographs are stories of twelve women who all found themselves at different points in their lives at the time when they refused to leave. Many have been rejected by their partners; by their landlords; by their employers; but the majority have been refused permission to stay in the country by the state. The women showed an extraordinary resilience and resourcefulness in the face of sometimes all of these rejections happening at once and the burden of so many problems caused them to escape into fantasy by opting for equally stable, rooted and good looking ‘Queen’s subjects’ – a lamp post, a tree, a traffic sign – London landmarks... With the mix of the text and image we trouble the perception of migrants and refugees in the UK today.
There will be a reading from the ethnography of the project by the Embodied Narratives Group during the Private View on the 21st June.
Funded by the European Cultural Foundation, with women from Migrants Resource Centre and females who wanted to join them.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 21 Jun 2011 |
5:00pm - 7:00pm Private View, with reading from the Embodied Narratives Group |
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| 23 Jun 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 28 Jun 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 30 Jun 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 5 Jul 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 7 Jul 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 12 Jul 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 14 Jul 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 19 Jul 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 21 Jul 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 26 Jul 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 28 Jul 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm | |
| 2 Aug 2011 | 10:00am - 4:30pm |
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