About the Artist
Ting Ting Cheng: 'It's not about travelling, it's about finding the place we identify as home'.
'Reasons to Travel', as the title suggests, uses the answers people give to explain why theytravel and the photos taken in foreign places to explore the meaning of, and the relationship between, travel and home. The project was inspired by the travel experience of the artist herself. As a Taiwanese living in London, Cheng has visited many countries in her life, for work as well as tourism. She became interested in the reasons why people travel and in the relationship between people and places. Travelling becomes here a process of finding out where the place we identify as our home is, and of figuring out how we identify ourselves on and via our travels.