HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS

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…