"Starting from the concept of roots to explore the role of cultural diversity in the upkeeping of the British Empire and contemporary Britain, London-based Indonesian artist Henri Affandi transforms the lower gallery space at Huxley-Parlour into a hanging-textile root cave.

With colourful suspended fabrics from different global cultures presented besides an audio work of migrants relating their heritage and experiences, Affandi's mix-media installation reflects the multiplicities within Britain, acting as an 'anthology' of stories, founded in a place that can be at once hostile and home.."

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(Elaine Zheng, 2022)