I will tell you when I am home

'I will tell you when I am home' takes its title from Hala Alyan's memoir, a work that traces personal narratives of exile and belonging. Born in the United States to a Palestinian father and a Kuwaiti mother, Alyan reflects on the fragmented nature of identity, writing, “You exist in both identities like a ghost, belonging to neither.”

The group exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage with the complexities of place and displacement, navigating the uncertain terrain between the desire for rootedness and the inevitability of movement. Their works map notions of unraveling and becoming, of loss and redemption, and of origins lost and recreated.

Rather than positioning belonging as a fixed condition, the exhibition proposes it as a state of continual negotiation, one that resists dyadic relationships between self, idea, and state. In doing so, the artists reveal how identity can emerge through displacement: through the act of inhabiting the in-between, of existing unclaimed yet persistently present. Ultimately, the exhibition is grounded in the idea that belonging can be reimagined not as a return to origin, but as an ongoing process of finding continuity within dislocation.