Sara Sallam - Home Outside of Home, 2017-ongoing

In this on going body of work, Sallam scrutinises the western obsession with Egypt during the early 19th century, known as Egyptomania, and its contemporary legacies. Drawing on her personal experience emigrating from Egypt and the homesickness accompanying it, Sallam offers with this work a counter narrative reclaiming her heritage and protesting its colonial framing. By projecting her feelings onto displaced Egyptian artefacs in Europe, she portrays these as narrators similarly longing for their ancestral home. Through their personification, she starts a dialogue about the historical and contemporary meaning of their presence in European landscapes and collections, which is typically absent from the public discourse.

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