{"product_id":"always-coming-home-by-poulomi-basu","title":"Always Coming Home by Poulomi Basu","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book emerges from the characters that appear in my film Always Coming Home, featured within the installation of the same name, which was first exhibited at Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (1 October 2025 – 3 January 2026).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe installation combines moving image, photography, sculpture, and sound to explore transnational identity and the extended trauma of displacement.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is an experiment. It references archives and other research materials gathered through the creation of this work, in addition to synthesized data, to create the conversations contained within this volume.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese conversations, therefore, should be read as a speculative fabulation—an attempt to imagine what these characters might discuss if freed from their original media constraints and allowed to exist in dialogue across time, space, and the boundaries between presence and absence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist\/Concept Poulomi Basu\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCreative Producer CJ Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesign \u0026amp; Production JAPC\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdited by Laura Bowen and George Harwood Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished by Focal Point Gallery \u0026amp; East Quay Gallery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition of 500\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 978-1-907185-29-8\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Focal Point Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56319555895675,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/6633\/3347\/files\/DSC3360.jpg?v=1782921022","url":"https:\/\/focal-point-gallery.myshopify.com\/products\/always-coming-home-by-poulomi-basu","provider":"Focal Point Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}