Part of the airWG series
Exhibition Opening: Saturday 15 March, 14:00-19:00
Exhibition Times: 15 – 23 March, Thu-Sun 14:00-18:00 & Mon-Wed by appointment
Mapping Belonging presents an in-depth reflection on the spatial conditions for belonging as experienced by atelierWG Artist in Residence, Mayrah Udvardi. During her three-month residency, Udvardi examined the diverse places she has called home— defined as any location where she lived for three months or more with access to a kitchen — to consider how architecture, geography, and cultural context informed her sense of place.
How does your built environment contribute to your sense of belonging — or displacement? In her role as Design Director with MASS Design Group — a global nonprofit that partners with communities to design, build, and advocate for architecture that promotes justice and human dignity — Udvardi habitually poses this question to others. Yet her creative practice is deeply personal, shaped by repeated experiences of placemaking and uprooting that began in childhood.
Udvardi’s retrospective is organized as an interactive catalogue of cartographies that trace the emotional and historical significance of each past home at domestic, community, and regional scales. Visitors are invited to engage tactilely with the catalogue, drawing their own conclusions about each home’s capacity to foster belonging. Ultimately, Mapping Belonging urges contemplation of how origins, migrations, and memories converge to form a sense of home and challenges viewers to question the complex forces shaping our relationships with place.
