Developed with care-experienced young people, the exhibition reflects the journeys, challenges and assumptions about young people in care.
Coram has today unveiled Echoes of Care: The living history of Coram and the Foundling Hospital, a new immersive art installation exploring the past and present of the care system. The exhibition at Coram Campus in Bloomsbury, London, is the creative culmination of the Voices Through Time programme. It integrates words, images and audio produced by care-experienced young people across five years of creative projects, with details of the lives of Foundlings and their mothers.
Developed in collaboration with care-experienced young people, the installation explores the role of the Foundling Hospital, highlights the unexpected relationships young people forge on their journeys, and challenges the assumptions made about young people in care by illuminating eternal themes and calling for change for the future.
There will also be an evening of discussion and celebration on 24 October, as part Bloomsbury Festival programme, to mark the exhibition and archive launch. Book free tickets at coramstory.org.uk/explore/content/event/echoes-of-care-the-celebration/.
The exhibition is being launched alongside the opening of Coram‘s digital archive, bringing to life the previously untold stories of over 20,000 children who grew up at the Hospital and of their birth mothers.