"Persephone has crossed the border" is a creative project focused on investigating how ancient myths, collective memory and art practice can give us an alternative lexicon to discuss border crossing, migration and the idea of ‘home’.
The project draws from the ancient Greek myth of Persephone, the goddess queen of the Underworld and the wife of Hades. She is also the goddess of spring growth, worshipped alongside her mother, Demeter, in the Eleusinian Mysteries. She spends six months on Earth with her mother and six months in the Underworld with her husband, moving across invisible borders, belonging to both worlds, without fully belonging to either of them.
The project started within the framework of the Inverness College Research and Scholarship Scheme 2019-20 and received funding for further development from Creative Scotland in 2021. Preliminary research outcomes have been presented at the IV International Conference on Memory Studies (Istanbul, November 2019) and the IV International Congress on Visual Studies, GKA (Paris, April 2020). A peer-reviewed article has been published in the International Visual Culture Review in 2020.
