mall brat (môl brat, mäl brat) n.

The show included drawings, sculptures, and an interactive video installation exploring identity and memory through the lens of my childhood experiences of a shopping mall in Duluth, Georgia. I use the phrase “Mall Brat”, a parallel to Military Brat and the concept of the Attached Traveler, to describe how I followed my father, who managed a chain of mall-based shoe stores, through South Carolina and Georgia as new malls opened in the 1980s.