Home, hearth and heart

T THE END of a long day, we return home to comfort, security, warmth, food and family, the walls identified as home protecting and comforting us.

- IVINDER GILL

So what, might one ask.Well, what is obvious for some is elusive for many, especially in the fractured times we live in where displacement is discourse and violence is norm.

The themes of home, displacement, migration, eviction—be it wars, climate change, be it strife, or be it just life taking over—are explored in heartbreaking detail and an involved eye, or even celebratory musings, at the 10th edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival, on in Goa.

In the project tilted, what else but Displacement, curator Rahaab Allana brings together voices of the affected. Artists from Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Morocco tell stories of their lands through pieces of broken homes, photographs, sounds and installations.

The human plight as a consequence of loss and displacement finds a narrative in sculptures denoting shattered notions of shelter and security, photographs of empty eyes, installations of captivity and freedom. Like Ali Arkady’s striking images of finding human touch amid the destruction of war in Iraq, using monolithography, in his work Memory, War, and the Art of Transition, brings attention to the fact that 100 million people were displaced in 2024 alone.