Arlo is interested in the intersection of art practice, culture making and community engagement. His most recent socially engaged works are about/with/and for migrants and focuses on counter discourses and counter narratives of migration and diaspora.

He is particularly interested in investigating the re/presentation and re/construction of, or the concept of, home, identity and belonging from memory and how they traverse with history and historiography.

His works are permeated with questions of how artists could be creatures not just of remembering but of reimagining a world more truthfully and just; how artists could transcribe all of life’s contingencies, even the smallest and possibly inconspicuous detail, that would lift how we live to the best possible light so we could understand and reframe it.

He identifies himself as a migrant, straddling the world for the last two decades traveling, studying, living and working in some 50 countries across the world.