The World that Belongs to Us* is a major international exhibition which brings together a constellation of intergenerational artists from the South Asian diasporas of the UK, USA and Canada. Against a context of histories of exclusion and erasure, the exhibition explores ways in which these artists have challenged normative histories and narratives and built communities and spaces for themselves.

Sharing a common thread of combining autobiography and activism and working across a range of media including painting, photography, film, animation, wall drawing and site-specific installation, the works on display activate interrelated conversations around community and belonging, friendship and intimacy, migrant and diasporic storytelling and queer and feminist world-making.

Set against a backdrop of heightened and difficult debates about immigration in the UK, the perceived failures and possibilities of multiculturalism and a re-examination of historical and colonial legacies and responsibilities, this exhibition celebrates joy, pleasure and magic; the power of making and imagining otherwise worlds; and community making and collaboration as a means of resistance and survival.