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Imagine Home

  • 23/04/24

Home is more than a house. It is the smell of soap, the taste of your favorite dish, the sound of a ticking clock on the wall. A sense of security, of happiness, or conversely of pain or melancholy. Because what does "home" mean when you are forcibly displaced? If it is not a physical place, or the things around you, then what is the meaning of home? And how do you hold on to that feeling when you no longer have a home?

In the exhibition Imagine Home, thirteen leading artists from Afghanistan, Lebanon, Ukraine, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, South Africa, Switzerland and the Netherlands show how they have experienced displacement. The exhibition consists of a careful selection of existing and newly produced artworks, including photographs (Eliza Bordeaux), videos (Manon de Boer), paintings (Raafat Ballan) and drawings (Foundland Collective) to sculptures (Lucas Lenglet) and installations (Zhanna Kadyrova). A swing to capture the shifting sense of "home" (Ines Kooli), a support beam coated with clove powder that serves as a tissue box (Jerrold Saija), a wall print of an ancestral home (Heidi Bucher), the larder of displaced people (Mirna Bamieh): artworks that make your senses work, smells and images that evoke a sense of home, installations that get under your skin. On display until June 2 in the North Brabant Museum

(Photos Frauke van Lierop - commissioned by BK Information Foundation)

Stéphanie Saadé, Échiquier (Chess board), 2022 courtesy of the artist and Gallery Anne Barrault, Paris

Stéphanie Saadé, Échiquier (Chess board), 2022 courtesy of the artist and Gallery Anne Barrault, Paris

Zhanna Kadyrov, Palianytsia, 2022 collection Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar

Raafat Ballan, Centrifugal Forces - Rumour about Freedom, 2024 courtesy of the artist and Galerie SANAA, Utrecht

Ines Kooli, The Swing of Damocles, 2023 courtesy of the artist

Mirna Bamieh, Sour Things: The Pantry, 2024 courtesy of the artist and Nika Project Space, Dubai

Eliza Bordeaux, Once Upon A Time Gap (from the series L'Atelier Hétéropie), 2021-2023. courtesy of the artist. Thanks to participants of the asylum seekers' center, Stichting de Vrolijkheid, Mondriaan Fund, Studio Albert Lieuwe and intern Ela Welles.

Jerrold Saija, support beam (huilebalk), 2020 courtesy of the artist

Manon de Boer, On a Warm Day in July, 2015 courtesy of the artist and Jan Mot, Brussels. Produced by Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing (FR)

Lucas Lenglet, Schaepmanstraat - De Kempenaerstraat, 2020 Amsterdam Museum collection

Narges Mohammadi, Passing Traces, 2020/2024 courtesy of the artist & Copperfield, London

Heidi Bucher, Untitled, Wall with Window, Ahnenhaus Obermühle, Winterthur, 1980-1981 courtesy of the Estate of Heidi Bucher and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York

Foundland Collective, Groundplan Drawings, 2014-2019 courtesy of the artists

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