Memories that Make Us: The Past We Carry, The Stories We Become

Every community has a living memory of itself an awareness of a collective identity woven of a thousand individual stories.

From the ruins of post-World War II Italy a generation of migrants sought new beginnings in Australia carrying with them the weight of history the resilience of survival and the hope of transformation.

The exhibition: Memories That Make Us: The Past We Carry, The Stories We Become illuminates these journeys not merely as acts of relocation but as profound negotiations of identity belonging and cultural inheritance. Through the prism of memory this exhibition traces the fluid and often unresolved nature of migration capturing the entanglement of past and present home and exile nostalgia and adaptation.

At the heart of this exhibition lies the idea that migration is never a singular or linear experience. Instead it is a complex layered process simultaneously shaped by personal reminiscence and collective histories.

The exhibition emerges from a long-term research project conducted in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. It is led by Associate Professor Toija Cinque Associate Professor Martin Potter and Professor Sean Redmond in association with the Critical Digital Infrastructures and Interfaces (CDII) research group.

This exhibition was also developed with the support of CO.AS.IT. Italian Assistance Association in collaboration with senior researcher and Il Globo
journalist Riccardo Schirru and multicultural communications expert Fotis Kapetopoulos.

Memories that Make Us: The Past We Carry, The Stories We Become
27 October through March 2026

Open to the public - Free
8am-9pm daily
Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus




Melbourne
Memories that Make Us: The Past We Carry, The Stories We Become⊜ Deakin Library Building, V 221 Burwood Highway   Burwood Map





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