Museum of the Home
Good Chance are working with the Museum of the Home on our most recent Ensemble Commissions programme, ‘Home, Migration, Belonging’. As a company that centres stories of migration and works so closely alongside people who have experienced forced displacement, it is vital that we acknowledge the Museum’s history.
The Museum of the Home has recently reopened, with a new vision: to reveal and rethink the ways we live, in order to live better together. This aligns strongly with Good Chance’s own commitment to working with artists from around the world, bringing communities together to tell bigger stories of hope and humanity.
In collaborating with the Museum, we acknowledge the complications of the Museum’s history and its connection to Robert Geffrye, particularly his wealth made through transatlantic slavery. The Museum is undertaking ongoing consultation with local residents, its wider audience and with its Board and the government to explore options for how to engage productively and positively in this important debate, particularly around the statue of Geffrye that currently stands in the front of the Museum.
We support the Museum in its ongoing consideration of this issue, in its stated commitment to reflect the diversity of modern London through its programming, staff and board, and in its clear action plan to; tell the full story of its history; to come to a decision about the future of Geffrye’s statue, and contextualise and reinterpret his legacy; and to enact a transformative programme of structural and cultural change.
Andrea Ling, Basel Zaraa and Hamed Moradi’s artworks will be exhibited in ‘Home, Migration, Belonging’ at the Museum of the Home from 12 April to 2 May 2022. All three installations are free and open to everyone!
