1937, Mexico City, Mexico–

Immigrated to the UK in 1968

1949, Maabree, Netherlands–

Hellion came to London in the 1960s with her then partner Felipe Ehrenberg and their children after Ehrenberg feared imprisonment for his involvement in the student protests in Mexico. In the work here, created with her later Dutch partner Jan Hendrix, who later settled in Mexico, Hellion assembles travel documents into a composition that at first adopts a playful, tourist-like tone. The bilingual phrase ‘witness of a change’, however, points to lives reshaped through movement.

William Allen Collection