Proposal and Letters examines marriage migration as both an intimate and political condition. Drawing on letters and photographs exchanged between migrant women and their families, the works explore how experiences of love, displacement, belonging, and dependency are shaped by migration regimes.
Through fragmented photographs, cutting, rearrangement, and voice-over, personal memories become intertwined with the bureaucratic structures that regulate the right to remain. The works question the idea of love as a purely private or individual matter. In the context of marriage migration, intimate relationships can become entangled with legal status, economic dependency, and unequal power relations.
By bringing these personal narratives into relation with migration policies, Proposal and Letters asks how the state enters intimate life—and how the right to love, remain, and build a future can become conditional upon legal and political structures.
Love is political when belonging is conditional.
