“What the map cuts up, the story cuts across”– Michel de Certeau

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART BEATS is a public space art installation that proposes an interaction around the feelings that voluntary migration arises. 

This device would serve as a platform to develop community interactions, specially with migrant population, such as storytelling workshops, sewing groups as a circle of integration and performances, amongst others. The result of this device’s expansion after these interactions, other than being placed in the artistic context (galleries, performances), would be exhibited in spaces related to human population movement, such as train stations, airports, state entities in charge of foreigners, schools of neighborhoods with high migrant background, etc.

Based on the suitcase as the main object of the start of a journey, and the tent, as temporary shelter, HOME IS WHERE THE HEART BEATS creates a sensorial metaphor of the vulnerability and resilience that leaving and building a new home entails.