Your wallet is your key to everyday life. It contains your credit cards, debit cards, driver’s license, social security card, membership cards, shopping cards, small personal items, family photographs, and more. We carry this small vault of critical information with us throughout the day. It tells a story of who we are and where we belong.
I asked family members and acquaintances from the Balkans and Denmark to give me a copy or scan of the contents of their wallets. Using this material as a collage, I created new documents.
By creating new content for the wallets, new identities emerge through the exchange of personal data and images between people of different ages, nationalities, religions, and backgrounds.
Through this act, I raise questions about economic migration and its realities. Where are the borders between defined spaces of national and religious belonging and the new realities of globalized individual experience and closed borders?
