PATRICK [PAT] ABBOUD

Patrick is Co-Creative Director on this project with the team at SBS Digital Labs and Google Labs. There are two new iterations of this concept he is directing with the team in late 2019/ early 2020 so stay tuned for updates.

‘Belongings’ is a new interactive installation, where six refugees share their stories, one item at a time.

If you had to flee your homeland for an unknown country, what's the one item you would take with you? That's the question being asked in Belongings, a new interactive installation launched at the Biennale of Sydney.

A documentary piece to compliment Ai Weiwei's artwork Law of the Journey, Belongings brings personal stories and voices to humanise the politicised topic of refugees and asylum seekers. Six refugees now living in Australia share how their treasured belongings have been a source of strength, hope and a reminder of home.