What’s a Home When You’re Leaving So Soon? features work by KARST volunteers, curated by Nis Murat.
The works on show explore what home means to the featured artists, uncovering how they find familiarity and refuge in disparate locations. The ephemerality of home, whether physical or psychological, shapes how we move through life. The show centres around each artist’s distinct sense of what it means to belong and how inclusion and acceptance can be found in times of uncertainty and instability.
“Home is in being here not having always been here, and being there but knowing you’ll leave soon. I found all those senses of home – of comfort, of safety, of belonging – not in a place but in the awareness that I, like you, like so many others, will always be torn between two, at least two. That I, just like you, learned to hold two separate and sometimes contradictory cultures in me – that I grew up in one but matured in the other.” Extract from Home is Other Immigrants by Majka Wankiewicz, Outhouse Magazine Issue 1
Join us to celebrate the opening of What’s a Home When You’re Leaving So Soon? And Jess Scott’s KARST x KIND Test Space on Friday 11 September, 6 – 8pm. Both exhibitions will be on view on the 11 & 12 September, 11pm – 5pm.
