HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS

A Solo Exhibition by Fadérera Wahab

For Fadérera Wahab, “home” is not merely a physical space, but an emotional state shaped by memory, intimacy, distance, and self-perception. In this exhibition, Home Is Where the Heart Is, home is no longer simply a stable and reassuring place, but rather something that continuously flows and shifts alongside personal experience and emotional change. Through painting, photography, and mixed-media works, Fadérera explores the subtle and complex relationship between people and the environments they inhabit, while attempting to question how spaces gradually absorb identity through the accumulation of time.

Faderera Wahab was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and is currently living in the UK. Yet regardless of medium, her work consistently draws viewers into a particular emotional condition. Figures within her works often slowly dissolve into their surroundings, while the boundaries between the body and the environment become increasingly indistinct. Rather than telling complete or clearly defined stories, her works feel more like traces of memory that briefly linger before gradually fading.

Presented at AMP Gallery, the exhibition brings together works across different media, collectively constructing a space that feels both intimate and emotionally charged. Rather than attempting to provide a singular and definitive definition of “home,” the exhibition focuses on how people continuously construct their own sense of emotional belonging through lived experience.

The exhibition is jointly curated by Synonym Lab and Alsolike Gallery, with support from D Contemporary Gallery and The Maverick Group. Home Is Where the Heart Is invites viewers into a reflective viewing environment, where personal perception gradually overlap with the spaces people inhabit, becoming difficult to separate from one another.

 

Curatorial Director: Zhenxian Shi

Curator: Synonym Lab, Alsolike Gallery

Supporters: D Contemporary, The Maverick Group