Kempadoo's multimedia project Virtual Exiles explores the experiences of individuals who have left their country of origin and who are now at 'home' in another. How and what is it that triggers us to make journeys from one place to another? How is the country we travelled from remembered? What is it that is taken away to recall the country that was once called home for us or our parents?

'Virtual Exiles will become a collective way of telling stories, of digitally contributing our own version of what it means to step between two spaces at once. Two cultures, two senses of belonging, two countries we are familiar with. To visually describe this difference becomes an important inscription to everyday encounters and our writing of the past ......'
David Dabydeen Jan 2000. author, poet, and lecturer in Caribbean Studies.

'Virtual Exiles' was realised in partnership with a number of other institutions, including Impressions Gallery, Artec, Watermans Arts Centre, Napier University, and New Media Scotland.