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Between the Self and its True Home <br />expressions of displacement and uprootedness

Between the Self and its True Home
expressions of displacement and uprootedness


Thursday, September 22, 2022 - Thursday, October 6, 2022

Reception: Thursday, September 22, 2022, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.


Curated by: Farshid Bazmandegan and Rachel Hakimian Emenaker

The New Wight Biennial 2022: Between the Self and its True Home highlights multidisciplinary works from artists exploring ideas of exile, diaspora, and migration. Between the Self and its True Home features the work of 27 artists from across the globe, which encompass some of the many stories of the present-day challenges which the artists have experienced due to race, ethnicity, gender, religion, war, and persecution. It proposes that the work of these artists in between their current home and former home (whether ancestral or physical) has created a place for timely and meaningful work across places and borders.

Artists Featured:

Julie Avetisyan, Katayoun Bahrami, Eva Balayan, Jackie Castillo, Gabrielle Constantine, Katherine Yaochen Du, Katrin Fallah, Anvar Hassanpour, Yulia Gasio, Elisheva Gavra, Weihan Jiang, Tehan Ketema, Sophie Kovel, Christine Yerie Lee, Alberto Lule, Laïla Mestari, Maya Nguyen, Chinaedu E. Nwadibia, Aquilah Ohemeng, Sammaneh Pourshafighi, Mehregan Pezeshki, Mohammad Sabir SABIR, Araks Sahakyan, Zelikha Zohra Shoja, Chanell Stone, Vivian Vivas, and Rebecca Wakim.

Publication: Exhibition Catalog

Panel Discussions:

Open to the Public

Friday, September 30th at noon PST
artists in conversation with Hrag Vartanian
via Zoom - Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98992003486

Saturday, October 1st, 11 am PST
artists in conversation with Rodrigo Valenzuela
In-person at UCLA New Wight Gallery

Thursday, October 6th, 5:30 pm PST
artists in conversation with Gelare Khoshgozaran
In-person at UCLA New Wight Gallery

Open Call announcement

Gallery Hours

Monday – Friday, 9 am – 4:30 pm

Visitor Parking

Structure # 3
215 Charles E Young Dr N
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Free Admission - Open to the Public


New Wight Gallery
Broad Art Center, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Gallery Hours:
Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

The exhibition program of the New Wight Gallery is made possible by the generous support of Dallas Price-Van Breda.