But Every Home is Alone! "Home" is a group exhibition that brings together a distinctive collection of artworks presented by artists focusing on the central theme of "home." The title is borrowed from a poem called "Poetry and Reality" by the Argentine poet Roberto Juarroz. In this piece, Juarroz argues that every space (therefore, every home) moves beyond its boundaries. Such an inherently fundamental transgression, given what happened in the past decades within the national borders and between borders of nation-states in our region, makes a "home" extremely fragmented and, at the same time, isolated. Moreover, with the displacement of millions of Syrians, Libyans, Iranians, Iraqis, Egyptians, and Afghans in recent decades, and after bloody wars taking place in the region, "home" has unquestionably lost its romantic connotations as shelter, refuge, and most importantly, one's beloved "private space." This collection emphasizes the ruptures permeating the gaze, body, history, and embodiment of our homes; breaks that, at the same time, uproot the "the ideal image of home" and invite us to re-articulate what we nowadays call "home" as such. Juarroz claims that "nothing fits into nothing." Following this illuminative poetic perspective, the exhibition is a testament to the fact that any attempts to bound or limit the idea of "home" within a pre-existing frame of a single, universal, and uniform format is, indeed, already failed. By acknowledging these premises, artists of this exhibition take their chances once again to risk reflecting and re-articulating the idea of "home."/// Some space Cannot erase another But it can corner it. Spaces too take up room In a different dimension that is more than space. There are spaces with just one voice, Spaces with many voices And even spaces with none, But every space is alone, More alone than what it comprises. Even if every space In the end blends into every other space. Even if every space Is an impossible game, Because nothing fits into nothing. -Roberto Juarroz

Artists

• -  Barbad Golshiri
• -  Nazgol Ansarinia
• -  Mandana Moghaddam
• -  Masoumeh Mozaffari
• -  Amin Shojaie
• -  Jasem Ghazbanpoor
• -  Nastaran Isazadeh
• -  Maryam Ashrafi