Martha Hellion and Jan Hendrix
As Part of a Diary/Witnesses of a Change/ Move, 1974
Mixed Media
30.1 x 29.7 x 5.6 cm
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...
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
