What’s a Home When You’re Leaving So Soon?
Exhibition
KARST Volunteer Show
FENSTER Project Space, KARST Gallery
Plymouth, Devon
11-12 September 2026
What’s a Home When You’re Leaving So Soon? features work by KARST volunteers, curated by Nis Murat.
The works on show explore what home means to the featured artists, uncovering how they find familiarity and refuge in disparate locations. The ephemerality of home, whether physical or psychological, shapes how we move through life. The show centres around each artist's distinct sense of what it means to belong and how inclusion and acceptance can be found in times of uncertainty and instability.
“Home is in being here not having always been here, and being there but knowing you’ll leave soon. I found all those senses of home – of comfort, of safety, of belonging – not in a place but in the awareness that I, like you, like so many others, will always be torn between two, at least two. That I, just like you, learned to hold two separate and sometimes contradictory cultures in me – that I grew up in one but matured in the other.”
Extract from Home is Other Immigrants by Majka Wankiewicz, Outhouse Magazine Issue 1
KARST’s webpost on What’s a Home When You’re Leaving So Soon?
Artist showcased:
Dana Aala, AS•I•AM, Sally Clark, Nis Murat, Ainsley Robinson, Leah Rowcliffe, Farrah Seyedi, Lucy Claire Walker
Curated, written, and designed by Nis Murat
The works on show explore what home means to the featured artists, uncovering how they find familiarity and refuge in disparate locations. The ephemerality of home, whether physical or psychological, shapes how we move through life. The show centres around each artist's distinct sense of what it means to belong and how inclusion and acceptance can be found in times of uncertainty and instability.
“Home is in being here not having always been here, and being there but knowing you’ll leave soon. I found all those senses of home – of comfort, of safety, of belonging – not in a place but in the awareness that I, like you, like so many others, will always be torn between two, at least two. That I, just like you, learned to hold two separate and sometimes contradictory cultures in me – that I grew up in one but matured in the other.”
Extract from Home is Other Immigrants by Majka Wankiewicz, Outhouse Magazine Issue 1
KARST’s webpost on What’s a Home When You’re Leaving So Soon?
Artist showcased:
Dana Aala, AS•I•AM, Sally Clark, Nis Murat, Ainsley Robinson, Leah Rowcliffe, Farrah Seyedi, Lucy Claire Walker
Curated, written, and designed by Nis Murat
Collage made by Nis Murat
