RECOVERED HISTORIES INTRODUCTION AND ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Foreword by Rita Hindocha, Senior Educational Leader, Leicester UK. Rita Hindocha arrived as a refugee from Uganda in 1972. The urgency and relevance of the Recovered Histories Project cannot be overstated at this particular juncture in our history. As we are daily assaulted by appeals to an ever-narrowing sense of what constitutes “us”, Sfougaras’s work asserts for us the binding humanity of our shared histories. In capturing and melding in ever-dazzling combinations the journeys of people across time and continents, the exhibition reaches out to offer an inclusive worldview, one we can all access if we care to listen and observe with as deep compassion as Sfougaras has done over the years. He had mined this seam of memory over the decades with ever more compelling force and precision reaching satisfying maturity in this latest work. The unique quality of this project resides in showing how the migrant and refugee experience can resonate with the ag...