"In the Heart of Another Country" is a publication not merely as catalogue but as historical document and as thesis. It explores the concept of home as a site of longing and belonging for artists from various diaspora groups.
The exhibition and book are dedicated to the question of how physical movement - mobility across national borders - shaped the framework conditions of international contemporary art. On their migration routes, the artists travelled through South and West Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Today, most of them live scattered all over the world and far away from the places to which they originally felt they belonged. Featuring 150 artworks from the public collection of the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE.
"In the Heart of Another Country" epitomizes the author's aim to utilize the Sharjah Art Foundation's collection to showcase art that postulates East-East and South-South alliances, bringing them together at a point of intersection to create a fertile foundation for a polyphonic and inclusive art history.
The Diasporic Imagination, African art, Asian art, Sharjah, Deichtorhallen, In the Heart of Another Country, Etel Adnan, Omar Kholeif, contra-colonial art histories.
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