Amin Alsaden's programming-related essay Exiled at Home is a VTape publication co-presented with Images Festival. This essay written in conjunction with an exhibition of work that considers the feelings of alienation and longing for safer environments after losing contact with the homeland. This work acknowledges societal trauma as a cause for art to resurface in troubled times, focusing on location and language. All of the artists are either immigrants to Canada or members of the diaspora from Southwest Asia (the so-called "Middle East"), including Lebanon, Iran, Palestine, Egypt, and Kurdistan.

Participating artists include: Mona Hatoum; Akram Zaatari, Nahed Mansour; Atefeh Khademolreza; Parastoo Anoushahpour and Faraz Anoushahpour; Rehab Nazzal; and Walid Raad.

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Exiled at Home, by Amin Alsaden

Participating Artists' Bios

Diagram of exhibition layout