What Does It Mean For A Place To Be Loved?
In a time of fractured geographies and contested histories, what does it mean to love a homeland? Is homeland a site of longing or a burden of history? Presenting newly commissioned works by Anita Muçolli, Sevil Tunaboylu alongside earlier pieces by Ian Waelder, this exhibition questions the contradictions of belonging, where love is entwined with alienation, and attachment collides with critique. Navigating exile, resistance, and the fluidity of identity, the artists interrogate the meaning of home, not as a fixed place but as a shifting terrain of politics and emotion.
Together, the works reflect on the effects of migration on both personal and collective identity, tensions between embodying cultural heritage and assimilation, and the emotional legacies of displacement. Arising from chance meetings and ongoing exchanges, the included artists unfold narratives specific to the experience of second and third generation migrants, who inherit both the trauma and the nostalgia of their families' homeland.
